iced depressoWe show that LaTeX users were slower than Word users, wrote less text in the same amount of time, and produced more typesetting, orthographical, grammatical, and formatting errors.
Page 3 @ 04 January 2025 11:12:11 AMOn most measures, expert LaTeX users performed even worse than novice Word users.
Page 3 @ 04 January 2025 11:12:20 AMLaTeX users, however, more often report enjoying using their respective software.
Page 5 @ 04 January 2025 11:13:18 AMMicrosoft Word is the predominant document preparation system across many disciplines, including medicine, law, business, and the life sciences, and is also the dominant document preparation system for professional communications.
Page 5 @ 04 January 2025 11:13:37 AMIn the “publish or perish” age of academic research,
maybe we should do away with that?
Page 6 @ 04 January 2025 11:14:00 AMThe preference toward a particular document preparation system can be particularly obstructive to the progress of research if the research question requires interdisciplinary teams.
Page 7 @ 04 January 2025 11:14:38 AMthe risks of the study were no higher than those experienced by people using their respective software (Word or LaTeX) on a day-to-day basis,
Page 12 @ 04 January 2025 11:16:22 AMAs shown in Table 2a and Fig. 4, Word users (both novices and experts) made fewer formatting mistakes (t (37.97) = -5.94, p <. 001) and wrote significantly more text within 30 minutes
Page 14 @ 04 January 2025 11:17:11 AMOverall, however, the performance of LaTeX experts and Word experts did not differ significantly.
Page 15 @ 04 January 2025 11:19:52 AMWord users rated their respective software as less efficient than LaTeX users (t (35.6) = -2.80, p <. 01), but LaTeX users rated the learnability of their respective software as poorer than Word
Page 15 @ 04 January 2025 11:20:03 AMHowever, LaTeX users assessed their work as less tiresome (t (35.38) = 2.16, p <. 05) and less frustrating than Word users
Page 17 @ 04 January 2025 11:20:42 AMHowever, our study suggests that LaTeX should be used as a document preparation system only in cases in which a document is heavily loaded with mathematical equations.
Page 18 @ 04 January 2025 11:21:44 AMA striking result of our study is that LaTeX users are highly satisfied with their system despite reduced usability and productivity
Page 21 @ 04 January 2025 11:22:35 AMGiven these numbers it remains an open question to determine the amount of taxpayer money that is spent worldwide for researchers to use LaTeX over a more efficient document preparation system,
Page 21 @ 04 January 2025 11:22:53 AMpreventing researchers from producing documents in LaTeX would save time and money to maximize the benefit of research and development for both the research team and the public.
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