Thread: Report: Readers absorb less on Kindles than on Paper
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Old 08-23-2014, 01:26 PM   #46
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Originally Posted by Barcey View Post
It doesn't strike me as a scientific study. Fifty people isn't a very large sample and I don't understand the rational of breaking them into two groups of 25. Why not have two stories and two series of tests and then have all participants read and test on paper and then all read and test on eink? I would expect that to be a more logical methodology and reproducible for scientific validation.
Because then you know the purpose of the test when reading which totally destroy the experiment. Seems just to be good methodology to do as they did.
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