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- Found in the news: - It deson't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
Where does it came from? -www.n-tv.de:- Our article on the theme "Randomized letters in a word" (www.n-tv.de/3184754.htm) has found great resonance. Many times we have been asked for the source for the original study. Unfortunately I don't have this information. Greetings -Dr Graham Rawlinson:- Actually I am pretty sure it is my research people are talking about as it was my letter to the New Scientist. It was research for my PhD and the UNievrsity was Nottingham, PhD submission 1976, available on line I am told, title The Significance of Letter Position in Word Recognition. It shows clearly that word shape (the theory at the time) is not that significant as shuffling the letters changes the shape substantially. I did 36 or so experiments with all kinds of changes, keeping first and last in position, or first two and last two letters. Should be easy to write a programme which deos this now. For me it meant learning machine code and compressing everything to get it in. NOw I just help people invent things. |
"Randomized letters in a word"
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