I have a good monitor and yet when I print things out and read them on paper, I always discover flaws I'd overlooked on the screen. This happens with both writing and code. Is paper better, or merely different?
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It is a function of the change of format, not that paper is better. I predict you'll get the same effect if you change your document formatting (font, colour, size, layout)
I notice effects of this type when I move an essay from vi to my site. E.g. I catch a lot of "the the"s that way. But not as many or as deep as when I print things out.
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I think the mechanism is de-familiarisation. The knowledge of what we meant gets in the way of seeing what we actually wrote, any change which disrupts familiarity helps diminish the role of expectation in perception
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