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You had one job 🙄 “Most notably, the test subjects read paragraphs in Courier New, a fixed-width font similar to the old typewriters, and rarely used on modern computers.” How do you manage to design an experiment that leaves out the one variable worth testing?
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Ah, good to know I've been on the right side of science all along! :-) You need two spaces after the period, not one! wapo.st/2wc4Mnn?tid=ss HT: @marathe
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That was my first thought too... But presumably there are some limitations to eye tracking that require fixed-width fonts. And they *claim* that this is standard, and the result should be replicable with modern fonts...
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