• AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • Azzu@lemm.ee
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      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”