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Originally Posted by sealbeater
Of course, I've actually tried it. My sole experience with it isn't from reading a wikipedia link while trying to find something wrong with it so I can argue about it.
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I have, long enough to see it is crap, for me personally. No enjoyment, just pure hard work. Same with turning up the speed on audibooks. "Turn up the speed they said, it will be fun they said."
Something goes in faster than you can pronounce (not out loud, but said/thought to yourself) and you lose out. You can actually test it yourself - try to talk as fast as you can making up a story on how your day went. Won't be able to get very far as your working memory for speech is used up faster than you can refill it. And that is stuff you already know. Comprehending something new goes a little slower.
Now you might argue that some speed reading techniques (not limited to RSVP) try to bypass your speech buffer of approximately 2 seconds, because it slows you down and is not necessary. Well, in a way it is necessary - try to remember sounds that you have heard, but cannot pronounce. Recalling memory depends on your speech buffer as well. You don't even remember conversations in the language your originally heard them, but in whichever language your are currently thinking in. When I remember things from my former life in Germany everything gets explained in English, the people even talk English.