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There seem to be a lot of theories about why there is an effect, but is there any data to demonstrate that there is one?

• yorwba 9y ago
  Let me just paste the same quote I used in a comment 22 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15506774 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15506774) ------------------------------------------------------------ The results revealed that while the two types of note-takers performed equally well on questions that involved recalling facts, laptop note-takers performed significantly worse on the conceptual questions. The notes from laptop users contained more words and more verbatim overlap with the lecture, compared to the notes that were written by hand. Overall, students who took more notes performed better, but so did those who had less verbatim overlap, suggesting that the benefit of having more content is canceled out by “mindless transcription.” “It may be that longhand note takers engage in more processing than laptop note takers, thus selecting more important information to include in their notes, which enables them to study this content more efficiently,” the researchers write. http://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/take-notes-by-hand-for-better-long-term-comprehension.html http://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/take-notes...
  • ouid 9y ago
    sorry, I meant cursive versus print. I don't really care about laptop note takers.
    • yorwba 9y ago
      All the comments in the thread above you were about handwriting vs. typing. If there is a difference between different styles of handwriting, it's likely in favor of the slowest method (if the theories on note-taking and retention are correct). That would be some kind of elaborate calligraphy where each letter is adorned with vines, or something.
      • ouid 9y ago
        what do you mean if there is a difference? My question was not to speculate on what causes the difference, but whether or not it actually exists.