[jacobsenscott]

No surprise. It's been shown over and over that speed reading, no matter the gimmick, doesn't work. It is just another one of those self help fads that never goes away because it is super easy to re-package and sell. Just read without thinking about how fast you are reading and you'll do fine.

[hinkley]

Have we isolated the writing style with these experiments?

I have no trouble believing that speed reading concise, efficient writers represents a loss of information. But some writers just will not get to the fucking point, and those were the books/classes where I was a little jealous of the speed readers. I need to read and retain about 10% of this garbage, but my brain is not cooperating on skimming.

[natrys]

Did you speed read this article? They weren't measuring whether speed reading itself works, rather whether bionic reading works for speed reading.