Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: LO Writer UI Analysis

Hi Björn,

> Sorry for stepping in here. The results are just what it says in the
> post. Yes, we did an analysis of data that was not gathered for this
> kind of analysis in the first place. As it cannot be used to proof any
> hypothesis (no statistical study can anyhow - read Popper on this
> topic) - the data cannot falsify the hypothesis that more detail is
> worse than less detail - but it can falsify the hypothesis that there
> is no difference between more and less detail icons in this particular
> setting. This is a value.

So, first of all, the hypothesis makes some sense to me, logically.

However, the problem here is that the categorisation seems pretty
random: "low-detail" icons have small text on them, have delicate
lines, contain many elements, etc. You don't seem to have published
how you categorised the icon, either (maybe I haven't looked hard
enough). If you look at the comments below the post, I am clearly not
the first to have noticed. This is, btw, not the only concern about
the validity of the more-is-worse analysis.

So, all the study proves is that some icons are more readable than
others – which is useful in itself of course.


> Esp. as Heiko did not cite the study to proof anything.

Sorry about overreacting there.


Astron.

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