Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!unmvax!nmt.edu!nraoaoc From: nraoaoc@nmt.edu (NRAO Array Operations Center) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: User comparison study Summary: It was a better study than that. Keywords: Mac, IBM, students Message-ID: <1990Jul17.055948.2958@nmt.edu> Date: 17 Jul 90 05:59:48 GMT References: <24617@snow-white.udel.EDU> <31794@cup.portal.com> Sender: ppalmer@nrao.edu Followup-To: ppalmer@nrao.edu Distribution: na Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM Lines: 13 In article <31794@cup.portal.com> FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) writes: >Offhand I'd say that this study simply shows that poor students not You guys should read the original study as summarized in Academic Computing. It was fairly well controlled. Students were not given a choice of which micro to use, only whether to use a micro or not. The tentative conclusion was that the Mac encourages playing around with fonts, etc. so students spent their time playing around with the appearance of the output, rather than thinking about the content. (It is a point all of us should think about now and then, while we spend hours TEX'ing a manuscript - which I am taking a break from right now.) Pat Palmer (email: ppalmer@nrao.edu)