Facebook is wrong, text is deathless

Re:Facebook is wrong, text is deathless by rwmj on Saturday June 18, 2016 @02:02AM (#11927301)

Yeah I did a few "<subject> in 60 seconds" videos and the two lessons I learned from that? (1) They take hours and hours and hours of work to make. (2) Your script for the video must not contain more than 50 words, so you can say very little.

(The above comment is 49 words)

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Re:Facebook is wrong, text is deathless by tremon on Saturday June 18, 2016 @03:29PM (#11930193)

I read the above comment in less than ten seconds.

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Re:Facebook is wrong, text is deathless by bzbarsky on Monday June 20, 2016 @01:14AM (#11936181)

Not surprising: According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_(process)#Assessment reading for comprehension normally falls in the 200-400wpm range. 10 seconds to read 49 words is 294wpm, which is smack in the middle of that range.

For comparison, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute#Speech_and_li... claims that 250wpm is the speed auctioneers speak at and that normal speech is 150-160wpm.

Getting words spoken at you is terribly inefficient compared to reading them.

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