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| Honourable Mention of Young Scientist |
Thomas and a friend won honourable mention at the school science fair. A project involving timing people to read a text whose individual words had scrambled interior letter. Past studies show our brain compensates for the scrambled letters. They compared the speed at which people read out loud the scrambled and unscrambled text.
Fun.
Catherine Jarvis
Hi Thomas,
ReplyDeleteI tried this experiment in an email to a group that I am speaking with. I mixed up the letters and then when I went to send the message, my spell check had fixed all of my intentional spelling mistakes.
Taht raelly mdae me luagh.
Arta
Can people with dyslexia read scrambled words faster than other people? I think I am really good at it because of my dyslexia. The letters don't have to be in the right order for me to know what word it is. This is a problem for my own writing. I think other people should be able to interpret my creative spelling.
ReplyDeleteMy dear friend who I work with says the same thing for her. Letters just float around in words anyway, so she can take quick smart guesses.
ReplyDeleteOne day me and my two best friends at work went out for dinner. I suggested we play the game, ``I am thinking of a word. You guess it. I will tell you how many letters you got right and how many are in the right position. You keep guessing until you get it right.`` It`s kind of like Mastermind but with words. For example, if my word was `tree` and you guessed `tear` I would tell you 32, meaning three letters are correct, but only two are in the correct position.
Anyway, it was really irritating to play with my friend who has dyslexia. She would get it right in the fewest number of guess every time. I asked how she did it.
She said, ``I know I am going to have trouble sorting out the letters, so I guess based on what I know about you -- what you are interested in, what you are looking at, the expression on your face.``
How can I beat someone who has a great brain like that? How irritating.