> How does one rule out the relevance of those "unforeseen effects" when claiming to compare typing in general vs handwriting in general? Exactly… Most people

> How does one rule out the relevance of those "unforeseen effects" when claiming to compare typing in general vs handwriting in general? Exactly… Most people can after training type much faster than they can write with a pen, assuming they’re allowed to use all fingers, which I’d expect to be crucial when comparing them. > do Norwegian university students in their early twenties normally write in cursive? Norwegian here: No. We learned cursive in elementary school but most students switched to “block letters” in secondary school. For the past 15+ years, students have also had school computers since secondary school, so about half of their writing went digital since then. (With somewhat negative results, given the attention span of most teens…)