【India】

2025-06-27 04:05:25 377 views 23548 comments

So you think you know the alphabet,India eh. Well, think again.

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Cognitive scientists at John Hopkins University noticed that people find it very difficult to identify a lowercase "g", despite seeing it every day.

Michael McCloskey, the senior author of the study, said that we often think that if we just look at something enough, we know its shape, but their results suggest that isn't the case.

"What we think may be happening here is that we learn the shapes of most letters in part because we have to write them in school. Looptail g is something we’re never taught to write, so we may not learn its shape as well," he said.

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So the scientists devised a little test to prove their point.

So people weighed in.

And the answer is... (drum roll please).

Which came as a shock to some.

The truth hurts.


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