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Reading print improves comprehension far more than looking at digital text, say researchers

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Reading print improves comprehension far more than looking at digital text, say researchers

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2y ago

Reading print improves comprehension far more than looking at digital text, say researchers

www.theguardian.com /books/2023/dec/15/reading-print-improves-comprehension-far-more-than-looking-at-digital-text-say-researchers

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It looks like it has much more to do with distractions and content type than the quality of the screens or fonts. From that, I assume that reading a good book on a digital screen with notifications off would show very little difference in comprehension. So, as usual with studies, the article title is a little misleading.
Data involved 469,564 participants from studies published between 2000 and 2022.
So, a significant part of these studies were done before decent screens were even available.
- Screens are very very likely irrelevant, they did not control at all for content of the text. It's so incredibly logical that reading a full book gives better reading comprehension than reading tweets/reddit/tumblr/4chan to the point that this study is just one of the "duh" studies that may be necessary to say "yeah we already knew that but now it's confirmed"
- Or dark mode adoption.