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But on the other hand, a "fast" debator from a high school debate team can process 260 words per second while compressing that down to notes, while simultaneously queuing up meaningful responses, while evaluating which/what to go with for a particular audience/judge, while listening for mistakes from their opponent. If you distill bitrate down to serialized responses to a canned psychometric task, sure, but why do we think that's the total throughput? It isn't, trivially, if we inspect what people do every day.


260 words per SECOND? Are you sure about that? I can only assume you mean for skim/speed reading.


that's a funny typo, I apologize.


No need to apologize! We're all human!




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