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Why Written Shortcuts Are Error-Prone

This video presents the same text shown beside it, spoken and on screen. It adds nothing the text does not say.

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A written shortcut can be misread when its letters, symbols, or spacing resemble another shortcut or a number.

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A handwritten letter can be read as a digit, changing a record's meaning entirely.

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The risk is in how a form looks on a page, not in whether the writer knew what it meant.