Trying to remember a pysch test

• 25 March 2009

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I remember when I studied psychology at Uni, I had a tutorial, where the tutor showed a paragraph, which we needed to read out loud, then count the number of a particular letter of the alphabet we saw in the paragraph ... it may have been the letter u or some other letter. However out of a class of 30, 29 got the the count wrong. Anyone know of the name of the test or have references to it ?

 

• 25 March 2009

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It was the f word... I mean letter.

http://www.bouldertherapist.com/html/humor/WordPlays/f's.html

 

• 25 March 2009

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Thanks mate. Cheers. What a great test that is, and I failed again .... my wife got it straight away, although she speaks 6 languages, and English her second.

She thinks the native English speaker ignores something ... don't want to give it away.

 

• 26 March 2009

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weird said:

She thinks the native English speaker ignores something ... don't want to give it away.

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That is true. English is my 2nd language, and it appears that I ignore that thing as well (judging from the result from that test).

 

• 26 March 2009

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I nearly failed it, but before deciding my final answer, read it out loud. And the sound of the thing that stuffs ya makes it obvious, of course .

 

• 26 March 2009

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I've seen that test at least half a dozen times over the years, know the gotcha, and still got it wrong - only got 5 instead of 6 on the first attempt. :bonk: