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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But the colors used could be part of the problem. Sure the brightness gets turned down, but if the colors don't work, then they may need to be changed. I'm not a fan of a white background when reading on LCD.
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It could be my built-in prejudice showing, but for me the distinction (and so the reason why I like the brightness issue polled separately) is that:
* I have never come across an LCD display that did not need its brightness adjusting, sometimes continually with the changing environment. So when someone suggested that 50% of MR participants (as it was at the time the suggestion was made on that other thread), who have such ready access to help if they need it, and who have probably seen this subject discussed many times already, might not adjust their brightness after having problems reading on an LCD, I found this distinctly less believable than that person did. Such a statistic from a wider population might - perhaps - be believable, but is much less so within our rarefied population here.
* Whereas issues with colour seem to me to be much more subjective. Even research regarding warmer colours allowing for better sleep is still up for debate, whereas the choice between sepia, orange, grey or other backgrounds, or perhaps inverted colour schemes and so on, mean you are going to need a complex set of poll questions and I strongly the suspect the result will be ... uninformative. (And it gets even more confusing because choosing a non-white background on LCD is also reducing the effective brightness without adjusting the brightness setting of the display.)