The reading
room.
Can a learned relationship survive a new arrangement?
Try it.
Choose a presentation, learn three conventions and try six unfamiliar combinations.
Your attempt stays on this page. Nothing is transmitted or stored; you can download it.
Three conventions to learn.
- A, B and C identify the same three futures throughout. They all connect to one origin.
- A percentage is expressive attention, not probability. Every future stays available at or above 10%.
- The total is 100%. Raising one allocation redistributes the remaining attention among the others in proportion to their amounts above the floor.
For example: start with A 20%, B 50%, C 30%. Give A 40%. B becomes 36.7% and C 23.3%. All three stay available. The extra room for A has come from somewhere.
What this may tell me.
After learning three local conventions, can a reader identify shared origin, retained alternatives and coupled emphasis in unfamiliar allocations?
Method & limitations
The two presentations carry the same information. This is practice in reading an authored constraint, not a test of intuition about hope or loss.
- Self-selected visitors, no random assignment and no response collection.
- Repeating the demonstration teaches its answers; repeated attempts are not independent.
- Both conditions carry the same numerical and relational information. The visual condition also contains labels and percentages, so this does not isolate language-free understanding.
- The exercise tests learned local conventions, not general superiority, emotional meaning, equivalence of sound and image, or a language for all minds.
A real comparison would pre-register new cases, counterbalance or randomise conditions, recruit independent readers, document accessibility and prior familiarity, and publish errors and failures alongside successes.
No participant findings exist here yet.