Not if he’s measuring his scanning speed and not his literal reading speed.
Which is the sort of thing that the folk who teach scanning to professionals who need to “read” hundreds of pages each day call their techniques. They used to be all over the place until enough people called them out on the mislabel.
Full comprehension just means you gathered the intent of the point the writer was trying to get across. You can easily do that with 20% of the words they wrote if you pick the right words. Scanning is basically training to find all the important words to fully piece together the idea as quickly as possible.
So 25 words per second may sound like alot, but it’s really the time necessary to find 5 words per second out of the crowd of 25. And like any other skill, it is something you get significantly better at with practice. Lawyers are gonna have alot of practice if they work on a skill like this.
Lawyering is well known to be a profession where words really aren’t important so you can miss out every other one and still just get the gist. No court case has ever been decided by pedantry over wording or meaning in legal texts after all.
Full comprehension implies - to me at least - that you are not just picking up the “intent of the point” but also subtler cues. No, you don’t need to read every single word in order to do that but 1500 words a minute with full comprehension is still horseshit.
Not if he’s measuring his scanning speed and not his literal reading speed.
Which is the sort of thing that the folk who teach scanning to professionals who need to “read” hundreds of pages each day call their techniques. They used to be all over the place until enough people called them out on the mislabel.
(Not to mention three-cuing…)
He specifically says, “with full comprehension”, so, like I said.
Full comprehension just means you gathered the intent of the point the writer was trying to get across. You can easily do that with 20% of the words they wrote if you pick the right words. Scanning is basically training to find all the important words to fully piece together the idea as quickly as possible.
So 25 words per second may sound like alot, but it’s really the time necessary to find 5 words per second out of the crowd of 25. And like any other skill, it is something you get significantly better at with practice. Lawyers are gonna have alot of practice if they work on a skill like this.
Lawyering is well known to be a profession where words really aren’t important so you can miss out every other one and still just get the gist. No court case has ever been decided by pedantry over wording or meaning in legal texts after all.
It’s either that, or Legalese has an enormously low entropy.
Full comprehension implies - to me at least - that you are not just picking up the “intent of the point” but also subtler cues. No, you don’t need to read every single word in order to do that but 1500 words a minute with full comprehension is still horseshit.