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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:not research, is clickbait Re:not research, is clickbait (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @04:23PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @04:23PM (#678442)

  Really? "VLM should be the subject of psychological research." They seem to go together just fine.

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• Re:not research, is clickbait (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @08:47PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @08:47PM (#678564)

  I'll eagerly await your paper entitled, "Effects of high levels of caffeine consumption on car analogy quality."

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