Yes, the Courier font makes me wonder whether the results generalize across fonts. But, frankly, from a text processing perspective the two spaces make better sense to me.
And, yes, I remember the IBM Selectrics; had two of them, but I was an early computer user and I still have two 8" floppy disks with the write up of my first experiments that eventually made it into my dissertation. Those were written in whatever word processing software that Tandy computers used to use 1981-82. I then bought an Epson QX 10 with a dot-matrix printer in '84, which used a different operating system and by the time I wrote the entire dissertation (7 out of 13 experiments made it) in '89, I was using Professional Write, a rather simple word processing program for DOS PCs. Two spaces with all of those! :) Miguel PS: I had to go back and add additional spaces after my periods. It's going to take a while ... ________________________________________ From: Claudia Stanny [csta...@uwf.edu] Sent: Saturday, May 5, 2018 2:17 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] One space or two after a period? This is such a strange issue. I had a had time retraining my typing to get rid of two spaces after a period. Sometimes, the old habit slips in. But with the fonts I use, the only way I can edit out two spaces is to use the search and replace function. The fundamental flaw in this research is that the stimulus material was presented in Courier. I doubt the results will replicate with adjustable fonts. Who actually uses Courier anymore when we have word processors and modern printers that give us manuscripts that look like they were typeset? It is an ugly font. My first step into high tech when I typed my dissertation on an IBM Selectric (Ken and Miguel will know what that is) was that a member of my committee loaned me his special font ball and I could use Bookman font instead of Courier for my manuscript! (Plus I could suck off typos with that wonderful tape!) OK. I'm done ranting. Claudia _____________________________________________ Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D. Director Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment BLDG 53 Suite 201 University of West Florida Pensacola, FL 32514 Phone: (850) 857-6355 (direct) or 473-7435 (CUTLA) csta...@uwf.edu<mailto:csta...@uwf.edu> CUTLA Web Site: http://uwf.edu/offices/cutla/<http://uwf.edu/cutla/> On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Miguel Roig <ro...@stjohns.edu<mailto:ro...@stjohns.edu>> wrote: Glad you enjoyed it! I went from two spaces to one, but now I'll have to make the effort to go back to two. And glad to see that TIPS is still alive. Miguel (on TIPS since '97). ________________________________________ From: Kenneth Steele [steel...@appstate.edu<mailto:steel...@appstate.edu>] Sent: Saturday, May 5, 2018 1:41 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] One space or two after a period? Hi Miguel: Thanks for posting the url. The issue reminds me of a conversation I had about 2 weeks ago at the end of a class. A student came up to me after class and said that she had to ask me an important question. She had an earnest look on her face, and the class had been on auditory physiology and deafness. I thought the question would be about her or her parents/grandparents’ hearing issues. Here was her question: “One space or two”? I laughed heartily and said I was a two-space guy. She then proceeded to tell me about her issue. She was a writer and had been using the two-space rule all of her life. But she was taking a psychology course currently and being told (graded down) for not using the 1-space rule. I assured her that I had never heard of a manuscript being rejected because the writer was not in compliance with the journal’s policy on one space or two spaces after a period. At that moment, two more undergraduates entered into the discussion about the merits of the 1-space vs. 2-space rule. There was much passion about the issue. I could have been listening to a Red Sox vs. Yankees discussion in a bar. Ken --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. steel...@appstate.edu<mailto:steel...@appstate.edu><mailto:steel...@appstate.edu<mailto:steel...@appstate.edu>> Professor Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 USA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On May 5, 2018, at 1:16 PM, Miguel Roig <ro...@stjohns.edu<mailto:ro...@stjohns.edu><mailto:ro...@stjohns.edu<mailto:ro...@stjohns.edu>>> wrote: The APA Manual states two spaces are better than one. What does the research say? 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