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Postby Tom Flapwell » Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:11 pm

What's That Say? For the first time, researchers have demonstrated the ill effects of mindless reading -- a phenomenon in which people take in sentence after sentence without really paying attention. Researchers say readers who zone out most tended to do the worst on tests.
Guh.

There's a reason nobody bothered to research it before.
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Postby Niko123000 » Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:14 pm

...What did they expect to see by researching this, seriously?

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Postby Tum0spoo » Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:48 pm

I know this happens to me sometimes. When I'm reading a book that I like and I zone out, I go back and read it over again. The people who do badly on tests because of it are just to lazy to pay attention, or re-read it.
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Postby Niko123000 » Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:52 pm

I know this happens to me sometimes. When I'm reading a book that I like and I zone out, I go back and read it over again. The people who do badly on tests because of it are just to lazy to pay attention, or re-read it.
You wanna know something funny though? In class (More specifically Geometry soon to be Algebra II, and Biology soon to be Chemisrty) I Would zone out and doodle all the time, but I would hear everything the teacher saiud and would remeber about 95% of it. It's weird.

Of course that's during lectures, I do zone out during good reads (Like HP and Stephan King) and not realize what I've read.
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Postby Zaaphod » Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:54 am

...What did they expect to see by researching this, seriously?
Money, of course. I doubt they were doing this for free.
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Postby Liberal Cynic » Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:00 am

I know this happens to me sometimes. When I'm reading a book that I like and I zone out, I go back and read it over again. The people who do badly on tests because of it are just to lazy to pay attention, or re-read it.
You wanna know something funny though? In class (More specifically Geometry soon to be Algebra II, and Biology soon to be Chemisrty) I Would zone out and doodle all the time, but I would hear everything the teacher saiud and would remeber about 95% of it. It's weird.

Of course that's during lectures, I do zone out during good reads (Like HP and Stephan King) and not realize what I've read.
Suprisingly this is like me. I can remember anything boring being lectured when trying to distract myself, but when I try to focus I end up zoning out. Damn you short attention spansssss!!!!!!!!!!
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Postby Blue Blur » Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:57 am

I know this happens to me sometimes. When I'm reading a book that I like and I zone out, I go back and read it over again. The people who do badly on tests because of it are just to lazy to pay attention, or re-read it.
You wanna know something funny though? In class (More specifically Geometry soon to be Algebra II, and Biology soon to be Chemisrty) I Would zone out and doodle all the time, but I would hear everything the teacher saiud and would remeber about 95% of it. It's weird.

Of course that's during lectures, I do zone out during good reads (Like HP and Stephan King) and not realize what I've read.
Suprisingly this is like me. I can remember anything boring being lectured when trying to distract myself, but when I try to focus I end up zoning out. Damn you short attention spansssss!!!!!!!!!!
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Postby FerretParade » Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:49 am

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Postby Foxhound » Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:59 am

:shock:

wow. what a bunch of morons.
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Postby gen200 » Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:16 am

:shock:

wow. what a bunch of morons.
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Postby osprey » Wed Jul 12, 2006 8:12 am

I'm in training right now for a new position at work, and I definitely zone out during the Powerpoint presentations...and I mean, completely zone out. And yet, I'm 3rd in my class of 48 with a 98% test average. I actually am myself surprised.
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Postby DesertFoxCat » Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:32 am

Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

You just had to bring it up :-P
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Postby osprey » Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:34 am

And the worst part is, we have everything that is on the Powerpoints in PDF files on our computers.
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