You this read wrong.

[Necrolepsy]

A bird in the
the bush












You read that as "A bird in the bush", when it clearly doesn't say that.

[Poppasan]

Im quite sure I saw a post like this in Reddit...

[Deleted]

I read it correctly.

[Pfeff]

I read it as it's written and thought wtf

[Garnier Fructis]

I read it correctly, sadly because it's written in fail.

Pretty much this. I read "you this read wrong" and clicked the topic simply because I was wondering wtf was going on.

[Garretdejiko]

/facepalm.. please dont spread that here.
It is true your mind "corrects" a text for you if it is written wrong.

don't worry, emoticons ruined it.

[Kalcheus]

What's the issue with people mentally auto-correcting an obvious mistake?

[Deleted]

i read it like 3 times before it made sense to me :x

[OrcsRLame]

I'm not 100% sure what to vote. I sort of read it as "You read this wrong" but before I was done reading it I started stumbling over the words in my mind, and then realized what it actually said. So I sort of half read it, then corrected myself after a few confusing seconds.

[Deleted]

Wasn't a very effective optical illusion, from my PoV at least.

[Ihazcakeforu]

To be honest i looked and looked and looked for the error.

Though maybe it was an edit after the post...nope...what the hell?? Read what wrong??

Then i finally found it, you got me.

[Deleted]

I read it as "you this thread wrong"


yep

[Skippy88]

I read it wrong but in my defence I'm a fast reader so I like to skip words.

[shadowlich]

Read it correctly, I was actually confused what was wrong for a minute.

[Raht]

Aocicrdng to rarceehcsh at Crmbadgie usivrteiny, it dnsoe't mtetar waht odrer teh ltetres in a wrod are.... etc etc etc

See how more difficult it gets the more you jumble around the letters? Plus the above paragraph uses too many small words. Yes, your brain can reconstruct sentences following logical patterns but to an extent. If I take a random paragraph from a book, you have NO context of what you are reading and randomize the letters, you will NOT understand anything. The whole "Cambridge research" is just an urban legend as far as I am aware.

I really had no problem reading that first statement.

Also, this paragraph might as well have been a random paragraph from a book out of context, as most people here are probably reading it for the first time. This WAS researched by Cambridge, is perfectly legit, and is not an urban legend. Try not to spread false information.

[lightgil]

I didn't see the error until I read the comments x.x

[Deleted]

Maybe its because im really really tired falling asleep here but i did see it as "you this read wrong"

[Ultima]

Sicne you don't read letter by letter, but by actullay just scnannig the letters, speciicaflly the first & last, it's quite undrestdanable to take a slimiar appraoch to short sentences.

[Deleted]

This WAS researched by Cambridge, is perfectly legit, and is not an urban legend. Try not to spread false information.

I DID say "as far as I am aware" but anyway, thought i should search it up some more.

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/...vis/Cmabrigde/
Quite an interesting read don't you think?

The tldr version is that the paragraph is from a guys thesis on the matter, it's still being discussed, it wasn't a research from Cambridge although various guys have commented on it etc etc.

On the actual discussion however, really, read the article! It's quite interesting. For example, this doesn't work in every language (as one would reasonably expect)

[Deleted]

Finding the actual mistake me took ages.