Eye Exam

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Quick Eye Exam...



This will blow your mind...



Just do it - don't cheat!!!
Try this, it's actually quite good.



But don't cheat!



Count the number of F's in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE
RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC
STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS
















Did you count them?

Scroll down only after you have counted them!



OK?


How many?







Three?


















Wrong, there are six - no joke!

















Read it again!


FINISHED FILES ARE THE
RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC
STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS




The reasoning is further down...

The brain cannot process the word "OF."


Incredible or what?



Anyone who counts all six F's on the first go is either a genius or a liar.
Three is normal.
 
I just had one of those blindingly painful moments of insight into just how little I understand my brain. Ow.
 
I found all six, but I majored in PR, and did a LOT of proofreading for my college newspaper.
So the first time I read any thing to check for errors or any wierdnessess, I read from the bottom of the page to the top and from right to left.
That gets you thru the spelling, because the words, strung together don't make any sense.
 
I counted six. It doesn't take a genius to go through letter by letter, and pick out the letter F.
 
Heh, Tim showed me that months ago. It is pretty neat. (While vat_man's head is about to explode :p)
 
I counted six, but only because it was pretty obviously designed to throw you off by the first few lines of the thread. Alas, I took it real slow.
 
It's not that the brain cannot process the word "of", it's just that it tends to ignore function words, such is of, and, etc. It will take them on board, but when looking for content, it tends just to filter out the words that string the sentence together.

Like a number of people here, as soon as I see something like this, my brain goes all picky and minutely analyses the sentence. I saw all of them straight away.
 
Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
It's not that the brain cannot process the word "of", it's just that it tends to ignore function words, such is of, and, etc. It will take them on board, but when looking for content, it tends just to filter out the words that string the sentence together.

Like a number of people here, as soon as I see something like this, my brain goes all picky and minutely analyses the sentence. I saw all of them straight away.
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Actually, its not as much that the words are filtered out as that the human brain interperates "of" as "ov," and doesn't see the "f". Interestingly enough, the simple scanning method will work for counting "v"s. The fact that it is one of those boring prepositions does have a substantial impact though. Why can't we all speak Thai? Or Latin? I've had, as Sage pointed out, months to research this. I have no life.
 
I spotted six. That surprised the hell out of me too, because I'm an utter moron when it comes to grahmar and speeling.:sly:
 
Originally posted by Timmotheus
Why can't we all speak Thai?
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Typing in Thai would suck though... my fingers would get lost trying to hit 44 different keys, not including something like 10 accents and punctuation.

:scared:

But anyway, we should get rid prepositions.
 

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