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Rob (c137)'s avatar

Wow, This also explains why there's dyslexia, where the subconscious rearranges the letters or numbers in a different order.

And there's the other effect where badly misspelled words resemble the correctly spelled words.

Expectation is what makes us see what we want to see. Bad statistics look like honest ones to someone who trusts authority.

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Peter Webster's avatar

You are correct that the visual examples of transidentification imply that such perception and "thinking" processes are all subject to the phenomena. I've also had audio transidentification...

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