Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John J. Lee) writes: >> Seriously for a moment, I read something recently (maybe here?) about >> an Apple study that claimed to show that people who perceived keyboard >> bindings as being much faster than mouseing did not, on average, take >> less time to complete the actions that were studied (they took more >> time, in fact). The plausible explanation for this was that people's >> subjective perception of time is affected by the greater mental work >> involved in typing (as opposed to mousing) for a given action. > > I think mousing takes more mental work than typing, and that's why it > subjectively seems slower even if a stopwatch shows it to be faster. [...] I'm not sure this is a matter for debate, as much as physical measurement. John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
