Baskerville Is the Greatest Font, Statistically, Says Filmmaker Errol Morris

An anonymous reader writes "A survey of unsuspecting New York Times readers implicitly answered the question: Does a certain font make you agree or disagree more often than another font? It turns out Baskerville confers a 1.5% advantage towards agreement on a survey question, compared to an average of six fonts. They were asked to agree or disagree to a passage from physicist David Deutsch's book The Beginning of Infinity, and were found to have an optimistic, if Baskerville-favoring, outlook on life. David Dunning, a psychologist awarded a Nobel prize and, separately, an IgNobel prize (for the eponymous Dunning-Kruger Effect), called Baskerville 'the king of fonts.' Sadly, Comic Sans — notable for its appearance in the Higgs Boson announcement — seems to be the weakest font. And why did Lisa Randall, the Harvard physicist responsible for that Higgs announcement use Comic Sans? According to the article, 'Because I like it.'"

Comments

Re:82.4% of statistics are made up

[Anonymous Coward]

If statistics are a bikini, then Goatse is the naked truth.

Re:OMG Flamebait - Flame on!

[oldmac31310]

There is nothing decent about it. Comic Sans is an abomination. It is clumsy, childish, ugly and dare I say retarded.