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on Friday May 11 2018, @12:26PM
from the BBC-thinks-it's-a-paragraph-break-after-a-period dept.
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.
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Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds
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(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday May 11 2018, @04:24PM (1 child)
And then there's the whole double period thing, too. No, not an ellipsis: *two* periods at the end of a sentence.
It's probably just laziness and/or a typographical error, exacerbated by the input method (a tactile feedback-less touchscreen, rather than some kind of key).
(Score: 3, Insightful) by danmars on Friday May 11 2018, @08:39PM
On a lot of soft keyboards, hitting space twice (which is easy to do by accident on a touchscreen) will give period + space. So they could have accidentally hit period-space-space instead of period-space and gotten an extra period that way.