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On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:46, Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:

>> I think Tog's conclusions (the single set of studies put forth
>> whenever this thing
>> comes up) are poorly made ...
>
> it turns out that there is rather older work that supports
> much the same conclusion, which i probably saw mentioned in HCI
> Remixed,
> since that's one i've read recently.
>

I've seen a couple of independent time trials from the mid 80s that
supported the same conclusion.