Despite seeing it every day though, psychologists at Johns Hopkins University have found that most people can't recognize, ...

The Johns Hopkins study had three parts. First, the researchers asked 38 adults to list letters that have two lowercase versions. Of the 38 participants, only two people listed the letter G.

You know what the lowercase version of the letter ‘G’ looks like… right? According to researchers at Johns Hopkins University, you probably don’t.

When it comes to print, the letter "G" has two lowercase versions: the “opentail,” which looks like a fishhook and is commonly used in handwriting, ...

Unlike most letters, "g" has two lowercase print versions. There's the opentail one that most everyone uses when writing by hand; it looks like a loop with a fishhook hanging from it. Then there's the ...

People around the world have read about Wong's research in Dutch, Russian, Chinese, Croatian, Spanish, and Italian. Most have been surprised at their inability to recognize the lowercase, looptail "g.

She points out that this isn’t the case for most other letters. The team also studied the two lowercase print versions of the letter A. But most people wrote the correct type and everyone selected the ...

In the first, 38 adult subjects were asked to name any letters they could think of that have two different lower-case forms in print. Only two of the 38 named the g, and only one of those was able ...