Dec
13
2006
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Mind Trick

An article by LYoung 3 Comments

This is an old one I found in my email, and I can't be bothered to search my blog to see if I have posted it before, but it is cool nonetheless.

Count the number of 'F's in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.

If you counted three, you're wrong. There are six.

Comments (3) -

Björn
Björn
December 9, 2006 at 9:57 PM #

So, do you have any explanation why I did not count the F's in the OF's?

Scoutn
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December 10, 2006 at 12:01 AM #

There wasn't an explanation in the email other than "the brain can't process the OF's". It probably follows the same lines of that study done by some university, which says that it doesn't matter what order letters are in, we generally look at words as a whole.

Rick
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March 3, 2007 at 3:45 PM #

That is amazing, I only found 3 until I read the firs post by BJORN
weird how the mind blanks out the "F'S" in of
cool

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