Please stop using word frequency data that are likely to be word length effects in disguise
Marc Brysbaert, Denis Drieghe · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2003
Reichle et al. claim to successfully simulate a frequency effect of 60% on skipping rate in human data, whereas the original article reports an effect of only 4%. We suspect that the deviation is attributable to the length of the words in the different conditions, which implies that E-Z Reader is wrong in its conception of eye guidance between words.