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From the Vault: The Moses Illusion

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Are You More Likely to Detect Errors in Questions?

Song and schwartzhere in two thousand eight found that simply by making statements harder to read, so you put them in chiller, i was thinking papyrus. I don't know what, at what actual fount they used, but it would just make people more likely to spot errors in the questions. Yeh, yah. It is interesting. That's how our brains work, though. You might just assume that if something's hard to read, you would be less likely to catch errors in it. But i think there's some kind of process where it's like slowing you down. It's not allowing you to skip over the parts that seem like a moses illusion

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