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Objectively poorly done study which does not come close to proving what it says it does.

Read the commentary on it publish in the same journal, it’s plain English and pretty scathing: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1517235/full

I wish there were a better study to back up my anecdotal observation that they are correct. I've argued with my kids about this, and they insist that they can just take notes on a computer, but when I _stopped_ taking notes on a computer and switched to paper, it made a huge deal in my comprehension and retention. Definitely agree this study doesn't offer much evidence either way, unfortunately.

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