Please read this sentence and count the F's: Finished files are the result of years of scientific study combined with the experience of years. Most people on first reading that sentence will count 3.
I count three f's, one upper-case, the other two lower-case. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Explain! NOW!
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Doesn't this go back to simple Aristotle? Our brains always categorize things or we would be spending our entire lives distinguishing one thing from another.
Sorry, i usually write it all in caps to save any misunderstandings. Apologies. Usually people count only 3 f's. (they miss all the of's). What seems to happen is people with a mathematical type brain get it right, simply because they actually count the f's instead of reading the words which ends up normally with 3. The same thing can be done with stuff like: the silliest mistake in in the world Where people usually completely miss the second 'in'. The word is instantly recognised and pretty much ignored.
This may or may not be a hoax, it was on Snopes as an undetermined. See: http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/cambridge.asp
