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Title    Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds
Date    Friday May 11 2018, @12:26PM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the BBC-thinks-it's-a-paragraph-break-after-a-period dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/05/11/0425204

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for Bytram

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/

Original Submission

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  1. "MrPlow" - https://soylentnews.org/~MrPlow/
  2. "trumpeted by some press outlets" - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/05/04/one-space-between-each-sentence-they-said-science-just-proved-them-wrong-2/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.95a0ad97da9b
  3. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=26555
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