and the survey methodology was a sentence-by-sentence explanatory reading of the text, with a time limit of twenty minutes.
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empyrean catastrophe
Oh boy, this is making the rounds again - the study was specifically English Lit and English Education majors, more than 70% were juniors or seniors, and *they were specifically encouraged to use available resources and the internet to figure things out*
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The proficient readers spent the most time looking things up; the problematic readers just skipped and were fine with making up their own story.