Experiment: does your eye skip large headings?

Theory: “Large-text blindness”

Run an online experiment Choose a body of text Present it to people as a comprehension test Two variants:

V1: headings are large / visually distinct from body text
V2: headings are basically same as body text

Question after reading: “What was the heading of the second section?”

Hypothesis: People read V2 headings more, and don’t skip them.

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