> I think you dramatically underestimate how many people suffer from RSI and how much it affects their lives. I'm not saying it isn't high; I said it would be

> I think you dramatically underestimate how many people suffer from RSI and how much it affects their lives. I'm not saying it isn't high; I said it would be higher. The distinction here is vital, as I'll go on to explain... > According to one survey, nearly 60 percent of computer office workers nationwide suffer from wrist pain while at the computer, and 51.2 percent say their keyboards are placed too high. (source: https://consumer.healthday.com/encyclopedia/pain-management-30/pain-health-news-520/repetitive-stress-injury-rsi-646236.html https://consumer.healthday.com/encyclopedia/pain-management-...) So more than 5/6 people who have keyboard related pains believe it is due to the placement of the keyboard. Of those remaining ~15% of users, how many of them are getting pains due to other circumstances (keyboard type, other positions in 3D space, or even just their own posture)? How many of them might still have their keyboard too high and don't even realize it (those excluding them from the first category where they should have belonged)? Hence why I said the number of complaints would be much higher if QWERTY itself was a major contributor to RSI because QWERTY is near universal whereas the other factors are not yet the other factors still vastly dominate the statistics. As for the rest of your comment, you're literally just reiterating everything that I've already said to you in my past comments. To summarize (because I think you're fixating on the detail and thus missing the overview for it): for all the talk about how "bad" QWERTY is, other environmental factors have a much more significant impact on the health of the typists.