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Re:The Story Behind the QWERTY Keyboard by derleth on Sunday May 05, 2013 @03:54PM (#5659523)
> 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

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Re:The Story Behind the QWERTY Keyboard by StavrosK on Sunday May 05, 2013 @06:09PM (#5659941)
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.

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Re:The Story Behind the QWERTY Keyboard by snogglethorpe on Sunday May 05, 2013 @09:21PM (#5660486)
Stephen Colbert coined a word to describe this...

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

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Re:The Story Behind the QWERTY Keyboard by StavrosK on Sunday May 05, 2013 @09:27PM (#5660508)
The other end of the spectrum also has a name:

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

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Re:The Story Behind the QWERTY Keyboard by thirsteh on Sunday May 05, 2013 @08:09PM (#5660306)
Based on what?
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