>Apparently you need "real research" before claiming it's more efficient to put the vowels on the home row rather than scattering them everywhere.

Yes, you do. What's "self evident" about it? How do you know if it's worse to alternate fingers and hit around, compared to stationary clicking for the most common characters?

Yes. There's a reason modern science has mostly supplanted philosophy. To rephrase Occam's razor: things that seem intuitive aren't always true :)

Did you actually test that, or did it just seem intuitive?

Test what?

> Apparently you need "real research" before claiming it's more efficient to put the vowels on the home row rather than scattering them everywhere.

Yes, you do, or how do you know you're not fooling yourself?

Or do you believe in n-rays, too?

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ken/Langmuir/langB.htm

Skepticism is all fine and good, but I don't need to run extensive tests, theorize and test to see if the huge, brown, roaring animal in the woods is a bear. Sometimes, 90% probability is a good enough approximation to go with. Sure, you fool yourself 10% of the time, but you save a lot of time the other 90%.

Based on this, I think we can preliminarily say that putting the "E" on the home row is probably a good idea.

Stephen Colbert coined a word to describe this...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness

The other end of the spectrum also has a name:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis

Based on what?