Re: LF: Why is QWERTY so bad?

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Re: LF: Why is QWERTY so bad?

Paul E. Brinich wrote:
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> Baer William Bradford wrote:
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> > I knwo a guy who can type 40wpm on his TI-85. So I think that if you
> > practice enough it doesn't matter whether the keyboard is QWERTY or not.
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> > On Thu, 28 Nov 1996 that1guy@juno.com wrote:
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> > > I know why! Because it's "Standardized" and you have a "keyboard and word
> > > processor" put two and two together and you have one mean lean cheating
> > > machine. You can QUICKLy and extremly EASILY type in the test, bring it
> > > home, and post it on every usenet newsgroup you can find. Get it? It's a
> > > way of preventing people from mass coping the test.
> > >
> > > that1guy@juno.com
> > >
> > > On Thu, 28 Nov 1996 20:55:34 -0500 (EST) Baer William Bradford
> > > <bwb@utkux.utcc.utk.edu> writes:
> > > >I still don't under stand what is so evil about QWERTY keyboards that
> > > >makes them not be allowed on standredized test. How does this give you
> > > >an
> > > >advantage in MATH?
> > >
> THey're afraid some wise-ass will copy the entire SAT onto his caculator
> and then ship it over to california where people havent taken the test
> that day yet and the people there will have an unfair advantage


They could do that with any calculator...not just the 92
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