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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
My guess is that you'll gradually revert to your "normal" reading speed. And that when you go back to wide margins for comparison, you'll temporarily speed up again. Meaning that I think any change to what has become routine for you will result in a temporary increase in your ability to read faster, for longer periods of time. It's change itself, that's making the difference, I think.
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I hadn't considered that it might be the fact of change that's making the difference. I remember taking a psychology class in college where we discussed a famous experiment with, I think Western Electric where they tried making the lights brighter in their plants and sure enough production increased. So they made it still brighter and it increased again. This happened a few times and then someone got the idea of changing it back and sure enough production increased again. They theorized that the increase was due to the fact that employees felt that the company was trying to improve their working conditions.
Anyway I guess I have to consider that sort of effect here, but there's some reason to doubt that's the reason. I've read on my phone and that's where I first noticed the increase in speed so I was just trying to duplicate the same effect on the Kindle.
I'll play with all this and see if I figure out anything. Maybe i will. Maybe not. It's not important stuff but it is pretty interesting.
By the way I googled that Western Electric thing, having read about it in college maybe 50 years ago to make sure I remembered it right. Sure enough. Here's a link to the article on Wikipedia. It's called the Hawthorne Effect, which I hadn't remembered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
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