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Re:Usability in Icons by epo on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @05:29AM (#2890499)
None of which really matters, at all. It's a blog post not a journal paper or a research report. It would have been nice to see a link to a full account but perhaps they couldn't decide how to represent that.
Re:Usability in Icons by harrybr on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @09:06AM (#2890967)
Omitting these details turns it into "a fun discussion". Including these details (even as a footnote) would turn it into a potentially useful piece of research.
Re:Usability in Icons by calpaterson on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @08:26AM (#2890861)
Apparently it was his bachelors thesis though, so he's (hopefully) written to academic levels of detail before before...