You conveniently skipped the crux of my argument: instruction styles vary so widely that focusing on note-taking tools in a lecture environment is pointless. It

You conveniently skipped the crux of my argument: instruction styles vary so widely that focusing on note-taking tools in a lecture environment is pointless. It’s like asking “which utensil is the best” without establishing the food you’re eating. The premise is ridiculous and clearly driven by a desire to make high-minded statements about analog versus digital methods. I’ve read several of these studies for grad school, and you don’t have to get much further than the abstracts to see how badly academics want to prove this point. Throughout my academic career I’ve seen professors point to these awful studies to justify their class policies. My comment was clearly not just discussing these studies in a vacuum, so I’m not sure why you’re treating it like a peer review.