The Reason Blonde Jokes Were Started, and also why you should not do drugs

Cognitive skills. Deductive reasoning.
I know people have different levels of these mental abilities, but seriously??

My boss' handwriting is really bad. Really. But after a while you get used to it, or at least get to a point where you can figure out the word you cannot read. Reading the sentence all the way through to figure out what word would fit there, or just knowing simple terms. The latter part is admittedly more difficult if you are new to a law office, but after a year one would think that the simpler terms would be known by now. So when LS#1 comes to me for translation, which is pretty regularly, I try to get her to figure out what it should be. This particular sentence read something like "...I need to prepare a Settlement Report...." The word in question here was report, and not having time to lead LS#1 to the answer I simply told her. She replied "Oh, well I thought it was the title of the document so I checked the file, but couldn't find anything." This got my attention.

I pointed out "First off--it is the title of a document and secondly, the sentence says 'I need to prepare'. As in it is not prepared yet. As in it won't be in the file"