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What is the effect of font on how long it takes someone to read a paragraph?

What is the effect of font on how long it takes someone to read a paragraph?. A science report by Hayden Lewis-Gosch. Prediction. I predict that that more basic fonts like Cambria will be the easiest to read because of there simplicity. This probably means that it will

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What is the effect of font on how long it takes someone to read a paragraph?

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  1. What is the effect of font on how long it takes someone to read a paragraph? A science report by Hayden Lewis-Gosch

  2. Prediction I predict that that more basic fonts like Cambriawill be the easiest to read because of there simplicity. This probably means that it will take less time for people to read paragraphs written in fonts like this. I also think that fancy fonts like Seogoe print may take longer for someone to read because the font is more complicated.

  3. Procedure Step one: Write out a paragraph. Step two: Choose the fonts you want to use. (I will be using three fancy/complex fonts, and three simplistic/basic fonts.) Step three: Make copies of the paragraph in each font. Step four: Get test subjects. (I will be using 18 people for my test. Three people will read the paragraph in each font.) Step five: Record the time it takes each person to read his/her assigned paragraph. Step six: Collect data and make data table. Step seven: Make science fair presentation. (This PowerPoint you’re looking at now.)

  4. Measured Variable Time it takes test subject to read paragraph. (Seconds)

  5. Variables Kept the Same Font size, Test subjects used throughout testing, Paragraph used in testing, and Unit of time used in collecting test data.

  6. Test data Note: Three different people did each font. It wasn’t the same three people for all the fonts.

  7. Conclusion The font you use in a paragraph has no effect on how long it takes someone to read that paragraph. The data shows that there is almost no difference between the fancy fonts and the basic fonts. The only big difference for average time for a font was for the font “Cambria” where the person in trial two read the paragraph really fast for some reason. The average time for all the fancy fonts is 35.33* seconds, and the average time for all the basic fonts is 32.08*. The only Reason that I think that there is a difference is just the thing with the trial two on the font “Cambria,” where the person just read really fast for some reason. If that hadn’t happened, I think that there would be almost no difference between the fancy and basic fonts. Since I know that there is almost no difference between the average time of the fancy and basic fonts, and I know that I did use different fonts, so there was a difference, this means that the font you use in a paragraph has no effect on how long it take someone to read that paragraph. *Total average of fancy and basic fonts comes from all the averages of fonts in that category.

  8. Special thanks to: Elias Bailey, Amelia Lewis, Henry Adamson, Helen Liska, Henry Silverstein, Aidan Mirick, Alaina Hurley, Katherine Rea, Grey Colleran, Zara Park, Anna Garrison, Jedi Cho, Grace Nelson, Sasha Segal, Iris Aukema-Gray, Yura Campbell, Fiona Dark, and Maxwell Burke!

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