Douglas_Knight comments on Mental Subvocalization --"Saying" Words In Your Mind As You Read - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 20 February 2014 07:13:42PM 0 points [-]

Most people read by recognizing whole words (mainly using first and last letters and the overall shape), so I don't think that's much evidence about whether you subvocalize. It is also probably not much connected to your spelling ability. That's not to say that I doubt your introspection about not subvocalizing any more than other people's introspection.

Comment author: Yosarian2 22 February 2014 06:35:32PM 0 points [-]

Interesting. I was under the impression that the way I read was more like how people are taught to do in speedreading classes, and that most people read more phonetically then I do. But I guess I don't really know which is more common.