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| Thread ID: 104537 | 2009-10-30 21:49:00 | I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! | WalOne (4202) | PC World Chat |
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| 825712 | 2009-10-30 21:49:00 | For this who may have not have seen this on another thread. It's has been around for a while, but worthwhile resurrecting: I 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 denos't mtater in waht oredr the ltetres in a wrod are, the olny iprnoatmt 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. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs psas it on! And of course, credit where credit's due - acknowledgements to Cambridge U :p |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 825713 | 2009-10-30 22:17:00 | I don't think so. It's more like guessing randomly. If I saw any of the jumbled worlds above by themselves I could not have made sense of it. IMO, context is just as important if not more so. |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 825714 | 2009-10-30 23:11:00 | This spelling is not truly random as the first and last letters of each word are the same as the original word. So it is not a proper jumble. :D | Richard (739) | ||
| 825715 | 2009-10-30 23:42:00 | Anyone who can't read the above jumbled text probably can't drive a car and have a conversation at the same time without crashing. More than 50% of the population is below average. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 825716 | 2009-10-30 23:57:00 | 4ny0n3 wh0 (4n'7 r34d 7h3 480v3 jum8|3d 73x7 pr0848|y (4n'7 dr1v3 4 (4r 4nd h4v3 4 (0nv3r54710n 47 7h3 54m3 71m3 w17h0u7 (r45h1n6. |\/|0r3 7h4n 50% 0f 7h3 p0pu|4710n 15 83|0w 4v3r463. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 825717 | 2009-10-31 00:44:00 | More than 50% of the population is below average. What an absurdly strange statement to make. |
roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 825718 | 2009-10-31 01:02:00 | 4ny0n3 wh0 Foreign on three what? |
the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 825719 | 2009-10-31 01:36:00 | What an absurdly strange statement to make.Why? There's no reason why that can't be the case. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 825720 | 2009-10-31 01:47:00 | Why? There's no reason why that can't be the case. There is, if you are only taking the population into account. The average is 50%, isn't it? So if less than half of the population ar ebelow the average, then the average is wrong. |
the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 825721 | 2009-10-31 02:02:00 | There is, if you are only taking the population into account. The average is 50%, isn't it? So if less than half of the population are below the average, then the average is wrong.I'm not quite sure what you're on about there, but you're wrong. The generally accepted meaning for 'average' is the mean average, in which the sum of all samples is divided by the total number of samples - you can't simply stick a pin halfway down the list and call it an average sample. Look at the following practical example: 3 4 6 7 9 15 15 22 27 If I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying that the mean average of the figures in that list would be 9. In reality, the mean is 12. As such, for that set of data, over 50% of the samples are below average. |
Erayd (23) | ||
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