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Testing the notion that subvocalization slows you down should be reasonably easy. Just test people deaf since birth. Do they read faster? Visit some deaf commun
by b0rsuk 7y ago
Testing the notion that subvocalization slows you down should be reasonably easy. Just test people deaf since birth. Do they read faster? Visit some deaf communities.
It's not immediately obvious, but many deaf people don't know how to read at all. Sign language (hand gestures) is a completely different language, different from English, Russian, Italian etc. To complicate stuff, there's not a single global sign language.
- texasbigdata 7y agoSimpler test. Stop doing it and you will notice a meaningful increase. Perhaps that's not a perfectly controlled experiment, but at least enjoy the benefits! :)
- mkl 7y agoI have read that some deaf people (with no inner monologue) can read a lot faster than average (e.g. 800wpm). Confounding that hypothesis, I have also read that some blind people can listen to synthesised speech at similar very high speeds (at which point it no longer sounds like speech at all, but they've learned to decode it by building up gradually).