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Is It Really Possible to Learn to Speed Read? (2019x229)

Udgivelsesdato: Aug 28, 2019

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Follow Simon on social media: https://twitter.com/SimonWhistler https://www.instagram.com/simonwhistler/ Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut: When Did People Start Turning Things Up to 11? https://youtu.be/Tc9mun4RJNg The Bizarre Story of the Man Who Sold the Moon https://youtu.be/GhRe_x2wByM In this video: 95% of college educated individuals read at a rate between 200-400 words per minute according to extensive research done by University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Dr. Keith Rayner. However, there exists a small, but rather vocal subset of people who insist that they can read several times faster than this using various speed reading techniques. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/04/really-possible-speed-read-still-reading-content-text/ Sources: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=I99QXYyzJfUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Keith+Rayner+papers&source=bl&ots=wmPdPx0SS4&sig=YipZC-AisDWZcENzwfTusw0Q4pA&hl=en&ei=Q2S8TdzeDIamhAerzanUBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Keith%20Rayner%20papers&f=false http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Causes_of_High_and_Low_Reading_Achie.html?id=kSO6WvArafUC http://www.forbes.com/sites/brettnelson/2012/06/04/do-you-read-fast-enough-to-be-successful/ http://lifehacker.com/the-truth-about-speed-reading-1542508398 http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/40016440?sid=21105837350941&uid=4&uid=2 http://www.slate.com/articles/briefing/articles/2000/02/the_1000word_dash.html https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lgllY57YZ38C&pg=PA185&lpg=PA185&dq=reading+comprehension+average+adult&source=bl&ots=mt8ozopecF&sig=s9aN83V7dM04ezvf8JLdFzB0iuo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sZYaVd7oLdKV7gagiYCABw&