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This "Cambridge Effect" is sort of true, but it does not tell the whole story.
It is relatively easy to read short words, but not so easy when reading longer
words. Alas, most content words in English are seven letters long or longer --
the more letters there are in a word, the more difficult and complicated it
becomes to correctly identify them when the letters are rearranged. Whereas,
more diminutive and common words like "ball" and "bear" remain mostly unchanged
and easy to recognize, longer, less common words, like "pollution" and
"simultaneous" change substantially to the point where recognition is scarcely
possible. Furthermore, this ability stems from a great deal of experience
reading correctly spelled words -- only people who can already read proficiently
can do this task. This trick does not reveal much about the process of learning
to read -- it only indicates that highly skilled readers are so practiced with
text they can overcome minor imperfections (emphasis on the word "minor") in
the print to access meaning.
Oh, and by the way, there never was any published research of this sort
conducted at Cambridge University. That part is completely untrue.