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Originally Posted by Hyperchiller  That experiment was a crock. The researcher documenting the experiment was a research trainee and didn't even know how photoreading worked. Do you know what that person was testing for? The person was testing if the people could read at 25,000 pm! What an idiot. The photoreading expert supervising the trainee didn't even supervise certain experiments because they were ridiculous.
I've got this information from AlexK from LSC. She recommends experiment with the photoreading system yourself to see if it works or not. |
Of course AlexK will try to discredit the research, because it goes directly against his interests, which are the success in selling as many PhotoReading products he can.
But AlexK's answer is flawed. The PhotoReading expert wasn't supervisioning the trainee, the PhotoReading expert was part of the experiment! The reading test was given to the PhotoReading expert and to another person using the normal reading techniques, and the results were that PhotoReading doesn't hold
any advantage watsoever in comparison to normal reading. Just read the research report carefully instead of just listening to AlexK's words and you'll see.
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Taken from the research report: "Parallel versions of two standardized and three experimenter-created reading comprehension tests were administered to the trainee and an expert user of the PhotoReading technique to compare the use of normal reading strategies and the PhotoReading technique by both readers. The results for all measures yielded no benefits of using the PhotoReading technique."
By the way, i did try PhotoReading by myself. Exhaustively, actually. I even got to the point where i thought i was getting as much information from a book as when i used normal reading, and was really, really excited. But after a while i realized that even though i had the impression that i was getting as much from the book as when i used to normal read, it wasn't true; i was actually getting just the general concepts of it. The deepest yet important informations, i didn't get. So, little by little, i kept getting dilusioned by it, until i dropped it for good.