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From: mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins)
Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.cog-eng,sci.psychology
Subject: Spelling and Perceptual Mode (was: Effects of poor writing?)
Summary: visual people are good spellers
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Date: 1 May 89 18:02:57 GMT
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In article <1982@trantor.harris-atd.com>, chuck@melmac.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes:
> 
>      I know that when I see a misspelled word, it just "seems wrong".  Have 
> there been any studies on how people determine spelling?  I would also find 
> that interesting.

Me too -- but then I'm primarily a visual person.  We have a guy here
who is primarily auditory (talks to himself, talks to the computer, etc.)
who can hardly spell two words in a row, and incidentally has some of the
ugliest handwriting I've ever seen.

My gut feeling is to go with Mr. Musciano on spelling, but I've run across
too many brilliant people who couldn't spell a lick to totally discount
spelling-deficient prose.  A resume is another matter, though ...

Background on the "peceptual mode" is from NLP: Bandler & Grinder's
*Frogs Into Princes*, for example.