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Old 12-28-2013, 11:35 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by GeoffR View Post
So no control group? Maybe it is not being absorbed in the book that caused the effect, just reading the same page over and over might do it, or perhaps just turning the pages and not reading at all. Without a control group there is no way to tell.
It appears, according to the link CWatkinsNash posted above, that different sections of the novel constituted the control. (eg, boring sections did not have the same effect as exciting sections.)

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