Research talk:Newsletter/2011/December

Spell checking[edit]

I've had a look at the spell checking study and written a review of it at en:User:WereSpielChequers/typo_study. Feedback welcome. WereSpielChequers 14:30, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the thoughtful review, I notified the author on his blog. --DarTar 17:58, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I tried to post there but that blog just hangs when I try and post there from Linux. Can I suggest that in future when we get unreviewed studies that make similarly controversial claims we get them reviewed before we publicise them? This one was so badly flawed in its design that it was easy to show why it would be wildly incorrect, and it was so obviously wrong that I doubt if any of our typo team were taken in by it. But past experience is that such errors aren't always so obvious, and I've known one study that affected a lot of people's thinking before it was checked and disproved. WereSpielChequers 11:35, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]