Sep

3

I was reading upside down to a grandkid today. Its an interesting exercise. Requires a mental readjustment. I recall some people looking at charts upside down. They are not the same. The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix used to play recordings of guitar played backwards. Bach used palindromic music. Also an interesting effect requiring a mental shift. This kind of exercise is good for the mind.

Alston Mabry responds:

In learning science this is called "disfluency." If one group reads some material normally, and a second group reads it upside down, the second group will have significantly better retention of the material over any given time frame. It's been done with things like normal type vs funky, hard-to-read type, as well as clear type versus fuzzy type. The group that struggles more mentally to read the material demonstrates greater retention.

Zubin Al Genubi adds:

In the book Why We Sleep he says a full night's sleep after learning helps retention by over 40% over all night crammers.

Nils Poertner writes:

reading a text upside down can have other positive effects, eg:
1. pay attention to the white between the black ink letters,
2. then turn it right again and read the text
3 reading is then typically easier

we all learn to read letter by letter. "w" "e", too, but overtime we tend to rush things and want to grasps whole words and lines but vision is all about habits and a lot more than reading a text.

smart phones support bad visual habits , as one is tricked to look at the whole text at once - but we need to practice the art of looking at details -at least from time to time, too, and to remember it. we got to remember things- memorize - that gives us the speed later. and first, we got to relax the visual field /brain (looking at white spaces is just one way to achieve it- there is a lot more one could say - see Bates method uses micro print for visual relaxation- yes micro print).

Easan suggests:

The advent of inverse ETFs helps look at charts upside down, doesn't it?


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