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<blockquote data-quote="Jeff Carlsen" data-source="post: 6313582" data-attributes="member: 61749"><p>I suppose this thread is already doomed, so I'll jump back in.</p><p></p><p>Because of the small and selective sample size, and the limited number of circumstances tested, there are only two pieces of information that we can really glean from it with confidence. </p><p></p><p>One is that line breaks slow reading speed, which is reasonable. But I'd like to see this study run with differing line-heights and paragraph spacing, to see if that holds true. Also, they were testing magazine articles, and while we don't know the exact texts used, such articles tend to have short paragraphs. This will lead to a larger percentage of line breaks being at the end of a paragraph, greatly easing new line discovery. I'd like to see the test run with long-form text.</p><p></p><p>The other is that a person tends to either prefer information density, or information sparsity, but rarely in between. This is a trend I've seen in regards to both web design, and character sheet design, and I find it interesting.</p><p></p><p>But when we're talking about web forums, we're not really discussing a difference of 35 character per line and 95. We're talking about unbound lines of text, which can stretch into the hundreds of characters per line. And that's primarily where I think forums fall down.</p><p></p><p>I also want to point to <a href="http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/columns.asp" target="_blank">another study</a> published in the same issue regarding columns. It's interesting, because there's more going on here. If anything, it hints that experience is a major factor in reading speed, and undermines the results of the previous study. It also suggests that, absent better data, laying out your text according to current best practices may be beneficial simply because everybody is doing it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeff Carlsen, post: 6313582, member: 61749"] I suppose this thread is already doomed, so I'll jump back in. Because of the small and selective sample size, and the limited number of circumstances tested, there are only two pieces of information that we can really glean from it with confidence. One is that line breaks slow reading speed, which is reasonable. But I'd like to see this study run with differing line-heights and paragraph spacing, to see if that holds true. Also, they were testing magazine articles, and while we don't know the exact texts used, such articles tend to have short paragraphs. This will lead to a larger percentage of line breaks being at the end of a paragraph, greatly easing new line discovery. I'd like to see the test run with long-form text. The other is that a person tends to either prefer information density, or information sparsity, but rarely in between. This is a trend I've seen in regards to both web design, and character sheet design, and I find it interesting. But when we're talking about web forums, we're not really discussing a difference of 35 character per line and 95. We're talking about unbound lines of text, which can stretch into the hundreds of characters per line. And that's primarily where I think forums fall down. I also want to point to [URL="http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/columns.asp"]another study[/URL] published in the same issue regarding columns. It's interesting, because there's more going on here. If anything, it hints that experience is a major factor in reading speed, and undermines the results of the previous study. It also suggests that, absent better data, laying out your text according to current best practices may be beneficial simply because everybody is doing it. [/QUOTE]
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