From: David B. Held (dheld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-03 14:17:26


David Abrahams wrote:
> Joel <joel_at_[hidden]> writes:
> [...]
>>Really? When people retain more information from reading text,
>>I would surmise that that's because the stress and tension is
>>lessened, as in the case when our nervous system is relaxed.
>>How can it be the opposite?
>
> People pay more attention to hard things than easy ones?

Then we should ask whether it's better to make the docs easy
to read or easy to remember. ;)

Dave