[Phys-l] Fwd: More Difficult to Read Text Leads to Better Retention

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

I find it of interest!


bc thinks it an argument for his telegraphic and small print e-mails:

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Bill Goffe <bill.goffe@oswego.edu>
> Date: 2010, October 19, 10:24:52 PDT
> To: PHYSLRNR@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject: More Difficult to Read Text Leads to Better Retention
>
> According to the Economist,
> http://www.economist.com/node/17248892?story_id=17248892 "Fortune Favors
> the Bold (and the Italicized): Effects of Disfluency on Educational
> Outcomes," is forthcoming in the journal Cognition (quite respected, it
> would seem). The findings seem counterintuitive  -- more difficult to read
> text leads to great understanding on the part of the reader. Maybe some
> here would find it of interest. 
>
>    - Bill
>
> -- 
> Bill Goffe
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