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It's nothing, I read this as "Soldering is easy" and then spent about 5 seconds trying to understand why the material is something different from what I expecte
by krick 13y ago
It's nothing, I read this as "Soldering is easy" and then spent about 5 seconds trying to understand why the material is something different from what I expected. Probably should sleep more.
- Edmond 13y agoIs anyone aware of psychological research into why some people are prone to this type of error? This is a problem I have and often find bemusing but sometimes alarming. At least a few times a week I encounter text that I initially grossly misread by automatically inserting my own words instead of what was actually written. I am inclined to think it may have something to do with doing a lot complicated programming. Basically after years of programming and having to deal with detail, you survive by being good at applying triage to problems, ie knowing what to ignore and what to pay attention to. Perhaps misreading text is your brain attempting to apply this type of triage.
- stormbrew 13y agoI don't think it's likely to have anything to do with 'some people' or any kinds of tasks you perform. It's probably more to do with word shapes [1], which are probably at least part of how you read. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouma
- Stratoscope 13y agoWe are all in this together. I thought Etsy was test-buying some of the kitchen items listed there and finding them painfully unfit for use. (No, really. I'm not trying to be clever. That honestly was my first thought.)