The Wubi Effect
Radiolab
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The Layout of the Kurti Keyboard
There is some evidence that the layout of the keyboard created those left-right preferences rather than the other way around. Researchers asked, okay, has our feeling towards letters changed over time? And so what they did was they got Social Security records from the 1960s through 2012 and they looked at names of babies being born. They decided we're going to pick 1990 as our year that the QWERTY keyboard became ubiquitous.
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