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

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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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @04:53PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @04:53PM (#678473)

    Careful with those  , they can lead to odd line wrapping.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @09:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @09:05PM (#678569)

    Took me a ridiculously long time (like, 10~15 years) to realize that   is not just a "space", but a "non-breaking space". Heh. Of course, I only occasionally dabbled in some HTML, but still.