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From: cavrak@kira.UUCP (Steve Cavrak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mac Yoosers R Stupid
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.133643.9262@uvm.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 91 13:36:43 GMT
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From article <3704.27afd74f@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>, by jahayes@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu:
	As a note of interest, my father (a DOS-person) replicated the
	Delaware study on the campus of Albion College, mostly in order
	to test several packages claiming to help analyze writing
	skills.
 
	He was unable to detect any differences between papers written
	on macs and those written on PCs. I believe the manuscript from
	that study has been accepted somewhere; I'll check on the
	details
 
	Josh Hayes, Zoology, Miami University, Oxford OH 45056
	 jahayes@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu,@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu,
		@miamiu.bitnet


There have several other replies to the article, one of which was
submitted to Academic Computing but which they did not choose to
publish.  One of these articles, published by a loose groups of
networked scholars forming the "Megabyte University", is available
via anonymous ftp: 

	ftp umd5.umd.edu
	username: anonymous
	password: your_name
	cd pub/jac		! journal of academic computing
	binary			! for binary files
	get halio.macword	! for the halio artice
	get comment.macword	! for the comment on halio

(The instructions for digging out this stuff came from the April 1990
issue of Academic Computing.)  

The comments point out a lot of problems with the original article,
enough to justify the assertion that if the article had been submitted
to a "scholarly" journal, it would not have been accepted.  

For those of you without internet access, I'll be happy to send you
an ascii-text copy of the two articles.

See ya
Steve