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This this this. Citing articles like this and completely ignoring the setup of the experiments is one of the major pet peves I have with discussions like this one.

You could certainly reproduce those results - if the only program you test them with is MS Wordpad. If you're doin surveys involving editors that have a thought-through keyboard interface and with people who are actually trained in it, the result would never even be in the same ballpark. What we're looking for is the skill ceiling, not the skill floor.



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