Thanks Jim for the great clip. I'll use it in my cognitive class next fall. I appreciate it!
Mark ****************************** Mark A. Casteel, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Penn State York 717-771-4028 ****************************** ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Clark" <j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu> Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 12:02:49 PM Subject: RE: [tips] APA Style: Spaces between sentences Hi As a short illustration of Mike's points 2 & 3 (and also the problem reading all caps), here's a short clip I use when introducing the topic of eye-tracking in cognitive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwNNij89qro Jim Jim Clark Professor & Chair of Psychology University of Winnipeg 204-786-9757 Room 4L41 (4th Floor Lockhart) www.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark -----Original Message----- From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu] Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 9:16 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Michael Palij Subject: RE: [tips] APA Style: Spaces between sentences On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 19:24:06 -0700, Karl L Wuensch wrote: > As usual, Mike has provided superb links. I opine that the >effect of spacing on readability is likely affected by personal >characteristics. In typing class in junior high I learned that a >single space between sentences would earn a reprimand. >At my current age, and with lost neurons producing visual field >deficits in my left eye, I find it difficult to read text with just one >space between sentences, especially with proportional fonts. >This puts me in the uncomfortable position of agreeing with the APA. Karl, I know how you fell. I hate agreeing with the APA too. ;-) Just a few additional points: (1) The discussion so far implicitly assumes that we are only talking about manuscripts produced by some form of word processor. Perhaps some Tipsters are too young to remember that some publishers required authors to provide "camera ready" text which was then used in the final published product (often this was from a typewriter). . One example comes from this APA-ish style reference: Launer, R. L., & Wilkinson, G. N. (Eds.). (1978). Robustness in statistics. New York: Academic Press. See: https://books.google.com/books?id=dabiBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA202&dq=%22Robustness+in+Statistics%22++Launer+Wilkinson+%22all+models+are+wrong%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-KEWVdDsGoe_ggT_uoSgCg&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Robustness%20in%20Statistics%22%20%20Launer%20Wilkinson%20%22all%20models%20are%20wrong%22&f=false The link above should lead to page of George Box's chapter where he famously said "All models are wrong but some are useful". What appears to be the original manuscript for this chapter can be obtained here: http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA070213 Today, with electronic submission of manuscripts, the published article or book chapter can follow whatever conventions the printer and/or the publisher desires. (2) Using word processing software, however, is not without its problems because it depends upon on how "smart" the software is or, in other words, what capabilities it has to alter the appearance of text. One thing that has been involved in this discussion is the concept of "kerning," the process of spacing of letters within words and between words. For more on this topic, see the Wikipedia entry on kerning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning Spacing within words and between words affects eye movement and cognitive processing as shown in work of Slattery & Rayner; the ref is: Slattery, T. J., & Rayner, K. (2013). Effects of intraword and interword spacing on eye movements during reading: Exploring the optimal use of space in a line of text. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 75(6), 1275-1292. The article is accessible at the link below and on Researchgate: http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758%2Fs13414-013-0463-8 Getting the "spacing" right is a problem for proportional fonts and different types of fonts (and how they are implemented) can make text easier or harder. (3) I think that one reason why APA style uses "ragged right" instead of left and right adjusted is because the former helps with spacing especially with proportional fonts. With both sides adjusted, the spacing between words is usually increased (leading to distracting white space) and sometimes the spacing between letters within words (which makes the words look strange). Since proportional fonts assign unequal space for letters (less for "i", more for "m"), left and right adjusted text looks stranger than for monospaced text. One can see this problem in old newspapers where the "column" had to be maintained even though odd spacing occurred. (4) Karl, sorry to hear about your vision problem and I hope that reading manuscripts on a large monitor compensates. Reading actual paper papers must be a drag. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca. 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