[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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[2/*] The reason I thought they were silly is because they seemed so much easier than the other things that we were asked to do at a similar time. For example, solving a quadratic equation seems dramatically more difficult than understanding a simple paragraph.
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[3/*] But lately it seems like people cannot read even one or two sentences and correctly build a model in their head of what is being said, never mind able to read, say, an article or a source document.
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Replying to @cmuratori
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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Replying to @helpful_signage @cmuratori
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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I also get emails asking for a service that is literally impossible to provide. I also added a note in bold saying that isn’t not available. Doesn’t stop the emails. This is not for the general public either, it’s for networking engineers (or hobbyists)
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