afrancke@linus.claremont.edu (02/06/91)
The article you read about (MS-DOS makes better writers) was also discussed in the (Oct? Nov?) issue of MacWorld (or was it MacUser?). Anyway, if you wan't another point of view on it, check it out.
jahayes@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (02/06/91)
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
brucec@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM (Bruce Cheney) (02/07/91)
Well, so far several of the postings responding to this article have been of the tone: I've heard this before, please don't post anything to the net on this, and then they are usually followed by an inarticulate reference like: this was discussed on the net somewhere, but I don't remember where. I would appreciate it if such posters could be more accurate in their references. What issue of Academic Computing (MacWorld) was this in? What pages? These are the questions my librarian will ask me. Unless you provide this information, or express an opinion that directly relates to the subject, you are generating "net noise", not me. I'm sorry if this sounds a little 'snippy' but as fellow Mac users I think you can appreciate the fact that I am harassed daily by "DOS-holes" and this article (which is recent; 2/3/91) is part of the ammunition. Your opinions and information are greatly appreciated. brucec {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4,allegra,uw-beaver}!tektronix!tekgen!brucec
cavrak@kira.UUCP (Steve Cavrak) (02/07/91)
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