Monday, 25 April 2016
QWERTY, the most common type of keyboard, might just be one of the most influential pieces of technology of the last century. David Garcia, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Markus Strohmaier of the Leibniz Insitute for Social Sciences, analyzed millions of product names and titles from 11 popular websites and determined there was “robust evidence” of the “QWERTY effect” on nine of the 11. Put simply, the “QWERTY effect” is a theory that items with more letters on the right hand side of the keyboard are more popular than those on the left. The theory proved true on nine…
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