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The 2019 laboratory study of touch and non-touch typists was carried out among healthy female typists.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“among healthy female touch and non-touch typists”
Benefit of touch-typing performance on muscle activity and pain over 4 hours, Thai Journal of Ergonomics, 2019, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- The abstract describes the study population as healthy female touch and non-touch typists, who then performed a 240-minute continuous typing task.
- What it does not show
- A single-sex sample, so the results may not apply to men or to typists with existing symptoms.