The flexibility of reading rate

It appears that an individual's "speed of reading" is too often assumed to be directly related to speed scores on standardized tests, presumably on the premise that all persons will slow down for difficult material to a proportionate degree. A better interpretation may be that a superior reading technique requires not mere speed but a greater flexibility in rate. The author proposes that a test should be devised to ascertain how much a subject's rate is altered when he reads for different purposes, and how much it is adjusted to different degrees of difficulty in the material to be comprehended.