# Do most people retain spoken or read information better?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-most-people-retain-spoken-or-read-information-better/926000>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 19, 2020, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-most-people-retain-spoken-or-read-information-better/926000 "2020-11-19T23:33:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 25

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-most-people-retain-spoken-or-read-information-better/926000/25 "2020-11-21T00:33:55Z")

</div>

> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
>
> I seem to remember we’ve had threads about this in the past, but I couldn’t find any.

It helps if you’re the one who started them 🕶

> [@How's your audio imagination?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-your-audio-imagination/729383):
>
> Inspired by [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=766431) Visual imagination - the ability to actually SEE objects that you are thinking about, as if you were looking at them, has been in the news recently. A lot of people are confusing the ability to visualise with the ability to imagine, but of course there are many different possible ways to imagine (tactile, emotional, proprioceptive…) Audio seems to be the next most obvious, after visual. I myself have a pretty good audio imagination. I hear voices quite clearly in my hea…

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-most-people-retain-spoken-or-read-information-better/926000)._