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Last post: 2 years, 7 months ago | Thread started: Oct 21, 10, 5:53 p.m.

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• jaylarson

  Half of the volunteers were presented with the information in difficult-to-read fonts (12-point Comic Sans MS 75% greyscale and 12-point Bodoni MT 75% greyscale). The other half saw it in 16-point Arial pure-black font, which tests have shown is one of the easiest to read.

  Participants were given 90 seconds to memorise the information in the lists. They were then distracted with unrelated tasks for a quarter of an hour or so, before being asked questions about the aliens, such as “What is the diet of the Pangerish?” and “What colour eyes does the Norgletti have?” The upshot was that those reading the Arial font got the answers right 72.8% of the time, on average. Those forced to read the more difficult fonts answered correctly 86.5% of the time.

  http://www.economist.com/node/17…

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• zaq

  

  • you will always remember that– zaq

  

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  Dog-earOct 21, 10, 6:12 p.m. – Permalink

• Hombre_Lobo_2

  good timing with my response in another thread -
  http://www.qbn.com/topics/643525…

  

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  Dog-earOct 21, 10, 6:33 p.m. – Permalink

• d_rek

  Lets face it... we're going to remember the one which was more unique versus the one that blends together to create a uniform 'grey' on a page, right?

  

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  Dog-earOct 21, 10, 7:03 p.m. – Permalink

• ukit

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  • I totally agree. I'd much prefer to know the diet of the Norgletti and the eye colour of the Pangerish.– Amicus1/3

    David Carson?– jaylarson2/3

    :)– ukit3/3

  

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  Dog-earOct 21, 10, 7:11 p.m. – Permalink