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Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds

posted by Fnord666 on Friday May 11 2018, @12:26PM   
from the BBC-thinks-it's-a-paragraph-break-after-a-period dept.

MrPlow writes:

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In what may be one of the most controversial studies of the year, researchers at Skidmore College—clearly triggered by a change in the American Psychological Association (APA) style book—sought to quantify the benefits of two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence. After conducting an eye-tracking experiment with 60 Skidmore students, Rebecca L. Johnson, Becky Bui, and Lindsay L. Schmitt found that two spaces at the end of a period slightly improved the processing of text during reading. The research was trumpeted by some press outlets as a vindication of two-spacers' superiority.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/two-spaces-after-period-are-better-than-one-except-maybe-they-arent-study-finds/

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• Re:So stupid (Score: 5, Funny) by takyon on Friday May 11 2018, @12:48PM

  by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Friday May 11 2018, @12:48PM (#678340) Journal

  This study is garbage.  They did the study using a monospaced font, and then just hand-waved at the end saying "well, it should apply to proportional fonts too".  Bullshit.

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