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Interesting study, but the claims of 'digital' vs 'print' are overly broad. The only digital setup tested was scrolling text on a laptop screen. No attempts wer
by PeterStuer 3y ago
Interesting study, but the claims of 'digital' vs 'print' are overly broad. The only digital setup tested was scrolling text on a laptop screen. No attempts were made to isolate factors that could influence the findings such as paging vs scrolling presentation, text clarity (resolution, aliasing) viewport size (fullpage vs small letterbox) , digital technology (ePaper vs (unspecified) typical laptop panel) or ambient dexterity (lightweight handhelp device vs. static deskbound laptop).
Given these gaps with significant impact plausibility, I feel claims extending the findings to the entire 'digital" domain should be toned down explicitly before publication.
Furthermore in should be noted that the results did not find differenc in resulting comprehension, just differences in measured brain activity. Specifically "there were no significant differences between the medium of presentation in comprehension of the texts, reading times, or performance on a measure of information retention. "
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.30.553693v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.30.553693v1