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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Intelligence and handedness: reading speed
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Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 17:51:49 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 26 17:51:49 1985
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>An aquaintance who is a psycholinguist found in an experiment that people who
>had left-handers in their family (but were themselves right-handed) averaged
>150 milliseconds per word faster reading time, and the variance was very 
>small; all of these people were faster than the fastest "normal" right-hander.
>This is an incredibly large effect in psycholinguistic circles. This was
>what he found in one experiment, and I don't know if he followed it up, or
>whether anyone else has found related results, so take it with a grain of 
>salt. My fiancee, who has left-handed relatives, reads much faster than me, 
>but I'm a slow reader anyway. 

Could you check those figures?  Even reading at a slow 300 wpm allows
only 200 msec per word, and lots of people read twice that fast.  How
could these people average 150 msec/word faster?  They'd have to be
reading backwards!
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Martin Taylor
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