Interesting. There certainly seems to be a bit of cherry-picking in the author's quotes. From the abstract of the first article "Thirty-two poor readers were t

Interesting. There certainly seems to be a bit of cherry-picking in the author's quotes. From the abstract of the first article "Thirty-two poor readers were then tested with the same material arranged in longer lines averaging 12 words, and no disadvantage of justification was found." So the only time that there was any evidence of poor comprehension in that study was with very short lines - 7 words per line - and with poor readers. The third one was published in 1991, and again seems to be based on narrow lines - 4 column newspaper. And if the examples on page 29 are anything to go by, it's potentially also based on fixed space type - and I'm not going to argue with anyone about justified text with a fixed space type looking poor. > This is aside from the fairly obvious aesthetic argument that looking at ugly things (like right justified text) inherently lowers your quality of life But if you don't notice it, then you presumably don't think it's ugly.