Re:Website allows you to experience what it is like to live ...
by Bedon292 on Monday July 13, 2020 @09:03AM
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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 claim, not debunks it.
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Re:Website allows you to experience what it is like to live ...
by thaumasiotes on Monday July 13, 2020 @04:30PM
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The 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