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Making Stupid MIstakes | Psychology Today

It’s the same problem all of us run up against when we try to proof-read a text, especially if we were the ones who wrote it. We see what we know the text means, rather than what is actually printed on the page. It is hard to make the text sufficiently different from what we assume it is, “strange” enough so that it can be really seen.