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The quote's claim is that they can still be read "fairly easily." The Microsoft link is a study that says ~10% slow down. I think that actually confirms the cla
by Bedon292 6y ago
The quote's claim is that they can still be read "fairly easily." The Microsoft link is a study that says ~10% slow down. I think that actually confirms the claim, not debunks it.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoThe Microsoft link is a study that shows 10% slowdown when reading text in which each word has one or fewer transposition of two adjacent internal letters. Scrambling the internal letters leads to much greater difficulty. The link notes this explicitly: > This study only looked at letter transpositions of a single position, like the kinds used in the original hoax. I can only speculate how dramatically reading speed would be hurt with more dramatic transpositions