Eugene Leitl <Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
> Kock did a study in which he compared twenty groups performing complex
> tasks--ten groups interacting by face-to-face, and the other ten via
> e-mail. The study indicates that the amount of time cognitive effort
> (measured as "time") required to convey a certain number of ideas via
> email is between 5 and 15 times than required to convey the same ideas in
> a face-to-face conversation.
It depends on the task. It's not that infrequent that I see people
agree to take a face-to-face discussion to e-mail. The thought of
orating a diff is absurd.
As usual, choose the right tool for the right task.
-- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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