I had the same thought—reading computer code seems more analogous to editing, especially editing something like a technical manual where you're concerned with h

I had the same thought—reading computer code seems more analogous to editing, especially editing something like a technical manual where you're concerned with how others will interpret the instructions. Reading through the research methods of this study, it says the participants read a single line of English text or Python/Scratch code at a time. (Example English sentence of "NOBODY COULD HAVE PREDICTED THE EARTHQUAKE IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY"). So this study was looking only at the very granular level of "reading".