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38 Post author: sixes_and_sevens 26 April 2011 10:53AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 26 April 2011 06:07:32PM 1 point [-]

Speed reading. Nope. Practice and concentration.

Speed reading doesn't seem to fit the supernatural pattern.

Comment author: ata 26 April 2011 10:03:32PM *  2 points [-]

It's not something that people would literally ascribe to supernatural agency, but it's still something that people see as happening "by magic" in a broader sense — it's associated with (e.g.) savants who have always been able to do it and don't really know how they do it.