QWERTY effect reveals what part of the keyboard you prefer. But it’s … – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): “QWERTY”. A term we are all back every day, without us thinking appreciably over it. It is namely the term for the standardized keyboard.

A new study shows that there are so incorporated in us, that it is the origin of its own power. QWERTY effect. It writes the online magazine Quartz.

Right or left?

Scientists David Garcia from Switzerland and Markus Strohmaier from Germany, has analyzed millions of product names, titles and words of 11 major sites. Including Amazon, Yelp, Rotten Tomato, YouTube and pornhub.

The study, now available online, reveals that words that contain more letters from the right side of the keyboard are ranked higher and printed more often than their counterparts with overweight of “left letters.”

it turned out, however, as it so often does, that rule has one exception. At porn website Redtube was the opposite.

– This may mean that the hand-opinion ratio does not have to manifest itself in all contexts, the authors write.

here it is evident that there venstreord is easier to relate to. Cause ratio is only speculation.

Vowels?

There are several theories that attempt to explain this preference for letters on the right side of the keyboard.

One theory is as basic as that “right is better than the left.” Another is that we prefer the right side because most people are right-handed. Therefore these words are easier to write.

Another scientist who has made an effort to crack the code, is Naomi Baron, an expert on language and technology. She says the New Scientist that it can be as simple as that there are more vowels on the right, and the vowels often used to express positive feelings.

– We do not feelings in the majority of consonants our, we loading them into vowels, she said.

LOL

It turns out also that the preference for “rightist” word, can not be transferred to the articles and goods we buy today. Name the other hand is an entirely different matter.

A study from 2014 says that name with letters from the right side of the keyboard has become more popular after the QWERTY keyboard was standardized in the 1960s.

another study from 2012 shows that QWERTY effect is particularly strong in words that were first implemented by the keyboard as we know it was introduced.

LOL.