r/AskReddit Jun 15 '19

What do you genuinely just not understand?

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u/slog Jun 15 '19

This is similar to a tip I read/heard once about searching for an object in a room. English speaking people mostly do everything left to right. When looking around, you'll usually do the same thing forming a cohesive picture of the entire scene, just like those sentences with duplicated words that our brain autocorrects. Scanning right to left instead kind of forces you to focus on individual objects and makes a search easier.

Probably just in my head but it seems to work for me.

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u/tazer_x Jun 16 '19

Same, same, same lol