it squares with my own experience The placebo effect can make cancer go away for a while. Vanishing RSI is trivial. You're especially at risk because you've

it squares with my own experience The placebo effect can make cancer go away for a while. Vanishing RSI is trivial. You're especially at risk because you've already sunk time and effort into retraining yourself, and have made a conscious decision to separate yourself from everybody else. That's Big Magic, psychosomatically speaking. None of this means you have to go back to QWERTY (or for that matter, that QWERTY is any less broken). But if Dvorak's research really was shoddy and self-serving, and you want to take care of the hands you presumably use to earn a living, wouldn't it be a good idea at this point to look into other keyboard layouts with better-documented benefits? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html