Comment on Heiroglyphs
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoIt’s a super common prescription and most doctors probably couldn’t spell it offhand. Combined with dosing info it would be more obvious. Also if they do happen to be wrong it’s unlikely to actually cause harm with acetaminophen/paracetamol.
spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
In addition, there’s a psychological phenomenon where our brains only need the first and last letter of a word in the right place, and all the right letters in between in any order, to suss out a word. Our familiarity with a lngaauge will put it together, so presumably the same is true for healthcare providers’ common words
danc4498@lemmy.world 10 months ago
FTFY… I read this just as fast as the original.
thelasttoot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Your e-----------e d-----t w----k w-----------t the c-----------t of the l---------s i-----------------n
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
“Your example doesn’t work without the context of the (something) intention.”
Not bad though
thelasttoot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Pretty damn close.
“Your example doesn’t work without the context of the letters inbetween.”
PlexSheep@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Not sure but I think you mean chunking. When you know a word you don’t need to read all letters by themselves but know roughly what the word looks like as a whole, so you can read it faster. This also inrotrozutes a failure rate of course, but works pretty well.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I love that effect, but sometimes it can fail. For example:
Is how my stupid ass brain read it first and I knew what was up