Eye exam

[Jokersmoker]

Quick Eye Exam...
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>This will blow your mind...!
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>Just do it - don't cheat!!!!!!!!!!!!
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>Try this its actually quite good.
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>But don't cheat!
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>Count the number of F's in the following text:
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>FINISHED FILES ARE THE
>RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC
>STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
>EXPERIENCE OF YEARS
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>Managed it?
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>Scroll down only after you have counted them!
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>OK?
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>How many?
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>Three?
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>Wrong, there are six - no joke!
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>Read again!
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>FINISHED FILES ARE THE
>RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC
>STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
>EXPERIENCE OF YEARS
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>The reasoning is further down...
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>The brain cannot process the word "OF".
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>Incredible or what?
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jokersmoker

 

[pyonir]

:Q joker with a repost?! j/k man....we know its not like you hang out here in OT like all of us nefs. that is crazy though...i am sure there are a lot of people that haven't seen it.

 

[cipher00]

You'fe misspelled 'ov' as 'of'.

 

[Jokersmoker]

Sorry for the repost

 

[Yzzim]

I got 3 from the first post

6 from this

woohoo! I can learn!

 

[TuffGirl]

I am stupd.

I counted 3 too.

 

[AdamDuritz99]

i counted 6 the first time.

peace
sean

 

[Mookow]

<< I am stupd.

I counted 3 too.



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same here.

 

[roboninja]

Am I worse, or better? I counted 4; for some reason I counted the last "of", but not the other 2. Strangeness...

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

actually counting only 3 means that you are smart. so smart that you have automated the reading process to the point that it is almost beyond conscience control.

hehe i guess you can tell, i counted 3 too

 

[bandXtrb]

I came so close... 5...

 

[Zenmervolt]

Got 6 the first time I ever did it. Still getting 6.

ZV

 

[Sir Fredrick]

<< actually counting only 3 means that you are smart. so smart that you have automated the reading process to the point that it is almost beyond conscience control.

hehe i guess you can tell, i counted 3 too >>



You may be onto something. I got 6, but I read slow.

 

[DaveSimmons]

<< actually counting only 3 means that you are smart. so smart that you have automated the reading process to the point that it is almost beyond [ conscious ] control. >>



Exactly -- I got 6 because I knew it was an optical-illusion style mind trick so I turned off my normal reading process and switched to proofreading mode (whirrr, click).

The brain is (or can be) set up to skim passages skipping useless words like "of" and "the" just like it filters out other input you don't care about (background noise, etc).

 

[MustPost]

I saw 3 Fs

 

[LiLRiceBoi]

DAMN only counted 3...

 

[b0mbrman]

I got 3 the very first time I saw this (an email once) but 6 every time since and I make sassy comments about how everyone should get 6 the first time.

 

[Maetryx]

I got 2 . Then I cleverly read it again and got 3 I was all like "Ah ha! They wanted me to miss the F in 'scientific'. Well I'm better than this clown I found all 3!"

 

[fatalbert]

3, oh well I like the smarter idea

 

[SWScorch]

I counted seven "Fs" :Q

The first time I ever saw this, I got 5. For some reason I saw the first two "ofs" but skipped over the last one.

 

[dude8604]

<< DAMN only counted 3... >>