Ps... conditioning: when you don't think that the second text is any harder to read to the first
Read the following:
"Cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy. It dn'seot mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm."
Everyone knows this about this amazing fact, but... try to read this exerpt from a STATISTICAL PAPER in the same way:
"Miittluvraae asilyans sattes an idtenossiy ctuoonr epilsle is the itternoiecsno of a panle pleralal to the xl-yapne and the sruacfe of a btiiarave nmarol dbttiisruein."
According to the original source, "Pretty hard to figure out what it means, isn't it? This is because the original text itself is not any better :) Here it is -"
"Multivariate analysis states an isodensity contour ellipse is the intersection of a plane parallel to the xy-plane and the surface of a bivariate normal distribution."
I think this calls for another night at the Hampton!
ReplyDeleteCheck in time: 3 pm.... waiting for it... :) going to sleep as soon as I get there.
ReplyDeletePs... conditioning: when you don't think that the second text is any harder to read to the first
ReplyDeleteRead the following:
"Cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy. It dn'seot mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm."
Everyone knows this about this amazing fact, but... try to read this exerpt from a STATISTICAL PAPER in the same way:
"Miittluvraae asilyans sattes an idtenossiy ctuoonr epilsle is the itternoiecsno of a panle pleralal to the xl-yapne and the sruacfe of a btiiarave nmarol dbttiisruein."
According to the original source, "Pretty hard to figure out what it means, isn't it? This is because the original text itself is not any better :) Here it is -"
"Multivariate analysis states an isodensity contour ellipse is the intersection of a plane parallel to the xy-plane and the surface of a bivariate normal distribution."
I didn't really think it was all that hard-- ack!