Re: LF: Why is QWERTY so bad?
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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
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