I think one fundamental flaw in this study is that Word is a text editor and LaTeX is a markup format. It is just strange to compare a markup format to an edito

I think one fundamental flaw in this study is that Word is a text editor and LaTeX is a markup format. It is just strange to compare a markup format to an editor. For LaTeX they list that at least "TeXnicCenter, LaTeX Editor, Kile, or WinEdit" were used. Word has a lot of helpful features for writing English Word documents (might be less helpful with Quechua) but the helpfulness of the editor varies greatly in the LaTeX world. I mean, it is possible to produce LaTeX text files from Word and doing so is a great example of how the editor matters. So this major confound may be why LaTeX users seem so error prone. Word is one of the best editors for English text but maybe WinEdit is not. I hope this fails to influence journal publishers. It is garbage.