Re:Reading on smartphone affects sigh generation, brain acti...
by coldtea on Sunday February 06, 2022 @11:27AM
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>Individual experience reports are nice, yet it does not really account to a decent study.
On the other hand, the latter are rare, and you don't even know it they're decent (lots of "landmark" studies get debunked years or decades later).
Reading the paper mentioned, I also feel that we need more than just experience reports (e.g. comments and feelings in forums like hackernews) and controlled experiments.
Comprehension is down, yet I wonder about recall and the general amount of information we are processing. As we experience a lot of information in context, it might lead to a decrease in overall comprehension, yet a stronger recall on the bits we do remember. It would be super interesting to setup a larger scale in-situ study on the topic. Yet, I wonder how to get a baseline on that.