Yes, indeed, @command_tab is right: It was Dr. August Dvorak, in his fascinating 1936 tour-de-force book Typewriting Behavior.
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Replying to @mwichary
…somewhere in between talking about Pavlov, Freud, and hypnosis, all in the service of better typewriting. Also, the role of daydreaming.
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Replying to @mwichary
He… didn’t care much for QWERTY. “Analysis of the present keyboard is so destructive that an improved arrangement is a modern imperative.”
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“Is your typewriting class an endless succession of rhythm drills? How boresome to entertain such a notion! How depressing is such a vista!”
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Replying to @mwichary
“Is this exceptional instrument of yours manicured and groomed as its value merits? Is it perhaps injured by nail biting or other abuse?”
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“To require [a person] to master touch typing on the keyboard is a form of sadistic cruelty reminiscent of the worst in the Middle Ages.”
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Replying to @WideSpacer
Yeah, you mean vis-à-vis the Navy tests of his keyboard, or…?
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Replying to @mwichary
The so-called Navy study was one, but there were other problematic issues, that I can't recall instantly.
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Yeah. I have some sources on that. Although he had fans even decades later with all sorts of fascinating conspiracy theories.
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