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16y ago
This article comes off as hand-wavy. The crux of the argument, that "[t]op aligned labels have proven to be faster and easier to fill out than left or right aligned labels", is unsupported. The author supplies no links to research or other
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16y ago
Warning! Pictures contain EXIF data. Camera phones frequently geo tag photos. In other news, your computer broadcasts an IP address.
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16y ago
I can only access the abstract, but this is fascinating: "[t]he highest centile increased by some 18 to 22 units in the course of the century". An increase of 22 units runs the gamut of possible BMI values [1], from severely underweight to
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16y ago
I like OkTrends because they use heaps of data to arrive at interesting conclusions. But they often arrive at wrong (or at least incomplete) conclusions. For instance, this bit: "the general pattern is that more complex cameras take better
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16y ago
He may be deliberately using a strange wording to point out that these activities "pass time" (and not much else). However, I agree that the wording is off. Especially considering that's what "pastime" means in the first place [1]. Paul Bri