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Science didn't prove anything, it just shown correlation between personal preference and speed of reading. How this association was built? Where is the cause o
by ordu 9y ago
Science didn't prove anything, it just shown correlation between personal preference and speed of reading.
How this association was built? Where is the cause of this correlation? Why people preferring two-spaces are worse at reading one-space after period? Do they worse than one-spacers at other visual cognition tasks? Do they better understand spoken language with increased pauses between sentences?
One can ask tenth of questions, trying to make sense of this findings. This research gives us a bit of scientific data, but the bit is too small to jump to conclusions.
- dozzie 9y ago> Why people preferring two-spaces are worse at reading one-space after period? And: are people from countries where typographic conventions say "one space" worse or better at reading?
- pmontra 9y agoIn Italy we use a single space and all is well. I know the style guide for English is to use two spaces but I confess that I never followed the recommendation. I don't notice any difference, only the inconvenience of typing an extra character, but I'm trained to read single spaces.