Wednesday, November 16, 2011


Quality Control Test, True Story



Count the "F's" in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE 

RESULT OF YEARS OF 

SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH 


THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS



Scroll down only after you have counted them!











HOW MANY "F's" did you count?    3??      
Wrong, there are 6 "F's"!

The brain cannot process the "F" in the word  "OF". Incredible or what?
Anyone who counts all 6 "F's" on the first go is a genius. Three is normal, four is quite rare.   I one time used this example when teaching a course to a group of Quality Control Inspectors.  Most did what is normal and came up with 3 or maybe 4.  Incredibly, one inspector counted 12 "F's".  No wonder products never got past her, and they did not.Nothing moved past her.  What is incredible is the company let it go on for so long.   She rejected everything.  True Story…….