[1/*] Using Twitter has put reading comprehension into a very different perspective for me. I used to think reading comprehension tests were silly when I was in grade school, because they seem so easy. But I guess I took for granted the skill of understanding a paragraph of text.
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[4/*] Note that this is separate from things like emotional content, or intent. I'm talking about just basic facts, like what is the subject of a sentence, or whether there was one thing being talked about or two things.
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[5/*] The most recent example that really drove this home for me is that there were recent disclosures regarding grant proposals and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. There were _two separate proposals_, one of which was funded, and the other which was not.
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[6/*] It turns out gain of function research was _in_ the first proposal (DARPA. unfunded), not in the second proposal (NIH, funded), but then the second proposal ended up in the lab "accidentally" producing gain of function. Those are the actual facts that were disclosed.
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[7/*] From a reading comprehension standpoint, this is very straightforward (to me). But Twitter is now _littered_ with threads of people who are all over the map on what they are asserting. It's insane. I guess Twitter is where people who failed reading comprehension end up?
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[8/*] It is so frustrating that it makes me want to make a weekly show where all I do is recap what the subjects, verbs, and objects of the week's news sentences were, because apparently nobody can handle that if it gets even slightly complicated.
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[9/*] Like it seems that people on Twitter can only handle one subject. Like there was a grant proposal. They could handle that. But once there were two grant proposals, that's the end of it. Their brain can't track two similar things at the same time, so it's over?
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But does the fault occur in the transmission, in the reception or is it a combination of both?
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It's just reading and memory, AFAICT. People just kind of reduce things down to extremely simple models that are totally incorrect, like in the example I give in this thread where there were two grant proposals, but people think there was only one.
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Began noticing this like a decade ago doing web dev. (Yes, scoff scoff etc.) Realized any instruction or process exceeding a sentence fragment would be ignored or misread, even if it was crucial and/or would answer a common question people would call to complain about
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I see the same thing. I have a form where you pick a location and service. Some locations only have one service. the form restricts you from picking the others. There’s also a note in bold as the first thing on the page. I still get emails asking how to sign up for the others
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