Count, how many "F"s are in the following text?
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FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS
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Your Result:
How many? Three?
False. There are six F's. This is no joke!
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Explanation shortly...
Explanation:
Our brain doesn't count the word "OF"
Wierd, isn't it?
- If you found six in the first attempt - You're a genius.
- Four or five is good.
- Three is normal.
- Less than 3... you should buy new glasses.
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Shawty
LOL you need to drink more
Lt_Col WIZ, VC, MiD (Ret)
that's a nice test, I enjoyed it.
[SAS]_Vet_Ade Veteran (Vet) 22nd Elite Virtual Regiment.
I said 7, thought it was a trap with the finished at the end ROFL
SAS_Nick
22nd SAS Elite Virtual Regiment
Here's another good one. Count how many times the players in white pass the basketball.
SAS_Vet_Random
Lt. Col (Retired)
22nd [SAS] Elite Virtual Regiment
To be honest i counted the right amount of passes but never saw that other thing ROTFL
[SAS]_Vet_Ade Veteran (Vet) 22nd Elite Virtual Regiment.
Teh eovultoin of lnagauge nad hwo uor bairn parses lnagauge is a rllaey intreestnig sbujcet. My splleing is trrelbe but odds aer yuo udnresootd prefctely waht I wos syaing. If tihs is so, tehn why do proper spelling and grammar actually matter?
It's easy really : so spelling bees can be good at something jk. Nah the real reason is because this spelling trick onlys works because our brain is familiar with words and the context is quite clear and unambiguous. The same reason shawty's famous sentence works too, our brain is so familair with grammatical structure that we quickly learn that the most efficient way to extract useful content from a paragraph is to ignore grammar, tense and spelling of the words in the passage we read. Sometimes though this can backfire spectaularly as exampls like shawty's famous sentence show. Optical illusions work under a simple principle too, like it or not, our brain "constructs" the world around us from guessing alot and it gets stuff wrong a lot.
Note : I spelt parses correctly purely because it's not a frequently used word so your brain is more inclined to have difficulty parsing mispelt forms of it e.g prsasing. of course now you have no trouble understanding it.
I stopped counting when it passed HAHA! I was like damn I'm all mixed up.
SAS_Nick
22nd SAS Elite Virtual Regiment
I counted 14 but didn't saw that gorilla too! xD
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Shawty
Welp, First I had to go back about 4 times to finally see SIX F'S,LOL, I am blind in one eye and cant count with the other.
I counted 14 passes on the first try but I Never seen that monkey walk by,LOL
Those were purty good.
Wow 9 years ago... who remembers this?
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Good one, I counted three + bonus trick 'Finished'.
And this is with glasses, too.
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