you can probably read at 200-maybe 400 wpm. Videos at normal human speech rate will be 120-150 wpm and it's harder to organize info you take in aurally than the kind of detail you can take in visually.
DC
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:27 PM, martin <mschiller at pobox.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 26, 2010, at 3:41 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> Am I old-fashioned in preferring to read a text rather than watch a video? Videos take so long, and they're often glitchy.
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> No. You're old-fashioned in not _reading_ a text while _watching_ a video.
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> martin
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