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While a nice story, I have been unable to find any citations that would indicate that this was ever an actual study.

• ThrustVectoring 9y ago
  I may be mis-remembering the level of rigor, it may have just been a thing a professor tried because they were curious.
• TheBiv 9y ago
  it looks like it was a class https://blog.codinghorror.com/quantity-always-trumps-quality/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/quantity-always-trumps-quality...
• draw_down 9y ago
  It appears in the book "Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking" by David Bayles and Ted Orland. PROTIP: Google will often tell you these things!
  • ghubbard 9y ago
    And where in that book are the references to an actual study? PROTIP: Books are often filled with creative writing.
    • draw_down 9y ago
      Fine, OK. I checked it out and there are no citations in the book at all (1993 edition), so yes it's a just-so story.