You kindly left a comment on my clip - a face looking vaguely disgusted, which I will take as a friendly gesture! I like this clip on reading and will follow your clips with interest.

I even learned how to do a Smily

When I see this on the latest pops I keep reading it as saying "People who read fiction are better". It makes me smile at my own misinterpretation.

Opps, I never read anything but non-fiction Josh! I just think real-life is so much more bizarre and more interesting than any novel could be.

But couldn't it be true that people who are better at reading people are more interested in reading fiction?

Oh, sorry, I thought Josh clipped this, but the comment still stands.

I was thinking the same thing sparklingdrift was.

It occurs to me that rather than the reading of fiction helping a person become better at reading people, it could be that people who prefer fiction are already that sort of person - ie good at reading people. It would also make sense for the non-fiction readers - those who prefer non-fiction are perhaps less likely to be as good at people skills as those who prefer fiction. Oops - just saw that this comment was made much more succinctly previously!

I was thinking the same thing as sparklingdrift -- the two (reading fiction, social skills) may be related, but so are the chicken and egg. You need more information to decide which came first.

Oh, and it was the chicken. (It's in the Bible!)

It's in the Bible only because the egg hadn't learned to write, yet.