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Friday, March 9, 2012

The QWERTY non-effect


Wait, what? Because there are fewer letters on the right-hand side of the keyboard, we subconsciously prefer words that have more letters on the right-hand side and are thus easier to find and type, so says a new paper by linguists Kyle Jasmin and Daniel Casasanto.

But Language Log checked it out, and it seems like the effect is not statistically significant.

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