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Hard-to-Read Fonts Improve Learning
arkenian writes "Difficult-to-read fonts make for better learning, according to scientists. The finding is about to be published in the international journal Cognition. Researchers at Princeton University employed volunteers to learn made-up information about different types of aliens — and found that those reading harder fonts recalled more when tested 15 minutes later. The article goes on to note a second test in a real school environment: 'Keen to see if their findings actually worked in practice, the Princeton University team then tested their results on 222 students aged between 15 and 18 at a secondary school in Chesterfield, Ohio.'... 'Students given the harder-to-read materials scored higher in their classroom assessments than those in the control group. This was the case across a range of subjects — from English, to Physics to History.'"
you'll be called a dingbat.
Lets just write all text books in captchas.
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Lots of people can remember things that were written in fancy script, like parts of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution*.
Come to think of it, this bodes well for my kid's lousy writing - people will at least remember what she wrote, once they decipher it.
*Exception made for Christine O'Donnell
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
Slashdot please allow me to post in Wingdings font and Symbol font. Posting in Italics TT does not make it not hard enough to read.
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It improves learning now ..
Nothing is ever a surprise to the Slashdot crowd when they publish a study on it. Except, of course, when "correlation != causation!!!!!".
I happen to find this extremely counter-intuitive.
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This is why I insist on doing all of my reading in Runic :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_alphabet
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to format those TPS reports with wing-dings...
I'd assumed Asians were better students because of cultural differences; never figured it was because of kanji etc.
I happen to find this extremely counter-intuitive.
I knew you would.