Reading Printed Material Is Better for Comprehension Than Digital Content: Study

Individuals reading 10 hours on paper understand six to eight times better compared to digital devices, according to the researcher.
Reading Printed Material Is Better for Comprehension Than Digital Content: Study
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Naveen Athrappully
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People comprehend content they read via printed material better than what they read through digital media, according to a recent review of several studies.

The analysis, published in Review of Educational Research magazine, looked at multiple studies between 2000 and 2022 involving 469,564 individuals, analyzing the relationship between leisure digital reading habits and reading comprehension. It concluded that “leisure digital reading does not seem to pay off in terms of reading comprehension, at least, as much as traditional print reading does.”
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