Modern tablets with pens may save handwriting from certain death by computer
Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 08:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Of all of the manual skills that computers are in the process of replacing, handwriting is taking its time to fade completely. Despite the fact that a great deal of written work is now done on a computer, universities for example, still expect students to do their exams using pen and paper. This is despite the fact that students will write at an average speed of around 70 letters per minute compared to average typing speeds of 190 characters per minute. Not only that, but marking of handwritten tests become more biased and students lose marks based on a range of factors like illegibility, and the simple perception that better handwriting is associated with greater intelligence.