Quote:
Originally Posted by JeanPierre
Nobody reads justified text more quickly, ceteris paribus. In the best case the individual difference will be very small. Hence the testing arrangement I described.
|
Sadly, the studies I looked at did indeed have people who read justified text more rapidly. More people who read ragged right more rapidly but the results did not support a blanket "everyone reads faster when reading ragged right" statement.
And what exactly constitutes 13 words per line? Going by memory, the studies I looked at specified characters per line not words per line. For your suggestion using an average of 4.7 characters per word in English, this would be equivalent to a line that is 72 characters long (4.7x13 + 11 spaces = 72.1). Using the higher average of 5.1 I've seen as well would give a line that is 77 (more precisesly 77.3) characters long.