Brain game

[ollie]

Count the "F's" in the following text, you have 5-10 seconds:




1FINISHED 2FILES ARE THE RE-

SULT OF3 YEARS OF4 SCIENTIF5-

IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE

EXPERIENCE OF6 YEARS...

Post your answers.

3! That was tough! Why is it one over looks the "f"s in "of" at first glance?

[Symphony]

Pastor Roger above says it's because the ofs are skipped over by the eye; since the eye is trained to gather meaning from larger, significant words first.


Also, I think it's because the eye is coordinating with the lips, phonetically, for the familiar phhht sound, as in 'files'; but the 'f' in 'of' isn't pronounced like that; it's pronounced as a 'v', as in 'uv', so the eye/lips doesn't pick it up.