[ExI] Preference for video over text?
Ben
ben at zaiboc.net
Sun Jun 6 22:02:45 UTC 2021
On 06/06/2021 17:49, SR Ballard wrote:
> Why do so many people have a preference for video over text? Is it slow reading speed, laziness?
>
> I can read much faster than a video can present, I can scan the text, I can easily copy-paste quotes from text. I don’t have to fight with accents and poor pronunciation.
>
> Is it due to my “learning style” that I have a preference for text? And/or why does it seem like everyone prefers video to text?
>
> SR Ballard
It baffles me too.
Videos are glacially slow in comparison to reading text. And text
doesn't come with annoying background music.
Although, if someone can't write very well, sometimes it's easier to
undersand if you can see what they're doing, so there's a place for both.
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Ben Zaiboc
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