Errol Morris Shocker: Baskerville is the Typeface of Truth : Responses

Errol Morris Shocker: Baskerville is the Typeface of Truth : Responses Design Observer ::Â Join the Discussion http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/the-typeface-of-truth/35428/ en-us Design Observer Group 2013-01-12T10:42:49-05:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0 <![CDATA[Responding to "Errol Morris Shocker: Baskerville is the Typeface of Truth"]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/the-typeface-of-truth/35428/#comments 2013-01-12T10:42:49-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "Errol Morris Shocker: Baskerville is the Typeface of Truth"]]>
Interesting article Michael!]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/the-typeface-of-truth/35428/#comments 2012-11-18T19:19:49-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "Errol Morris Shocker: Baskerville is the Typeface of Truth"]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/the-typeface-of-truth/35428/#comments 2012-11-15T04:16:52-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "Errol Morris Shocker: Baskerville is the Typeface of Truth"]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/the-typeface-of-truth/35428/#comments 2012-08-27T12:13:51-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "Errol Morris Shocker: Baskerville is the Typeface of Truth"]]>
]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/the-typeface-of-truth/35428/#comments 2012-08-24T11:39:03-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "Errol Morris Shocker: Baskerville is the Typeface of Truth"]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/the-typeface-of-truth/35428/#comments 2012-08-16T03:13:31-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "Errol Morris Shocker: Baskerville is the Typeface of Truth"]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/the-typeface-of-truth/35428/#comments 2012-08-16T01:36:55-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "Errol Morris Shocker: Baskerville is the Typeface of Truth"]]> thank god you didn't say "helvetica"!

unlike mr. baskerville, i'm just fine with caslon - in fact i love adobe caslon, which probably makes me a barbarian in the typeface world]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/the-typeface-of-truth/35428/#comments 2012-08-16T01:34:40-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "Errol Morris Shocker: Baskerville is the Typeface of Truth"]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/the-typeface-of-truth/35428/#comments 2012-08-13T14:08:25-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "Errol Morris Shocker: Baskerville is the Typeface of Truth"]]>
It was an interesting idea, and would have been notable if the effect were there, but it is not appropriate to claim that the effect is "irrefutably there" without supporting evidence. Science is difficult, and science with statistics is especially difficult. Anyone wanting to learn more about the Chi square test can look at this on-line textbook
http://onlinestatbook.com/2/chi_square/contingency.html]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/the-typeface-of-truth/35428/#comments 2012-08-11T08:57:21-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "Errol Morris Shocker: Baskerville is the Typeface of Truth"]]>

Michael, I love this âTYPEFACE OF TRUTHâ and your many links in this post and especially to Mike Lacherâs short imagined monologue. That piece somehow spoke truth to me. I would love it if each of the DO editors would read the Comic Sans monologue (with a straight face) for the OBSERVERMEDIA section of the Design Observer and then for fun redesign some of their award winning work in Comic Sans. For example: imagine the ambiguity of designing the Pentagram office banner in Comic Sans.

]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/the-typeface-of-truth/35428/#comments 2012-08-11T00:58:03-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "Errol Morris Shocker: Baskerville is the Typeface of Truth"]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/the-typeface-of-truth/35428/#comments 2012-08-10T20:59:01-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "Errol Morris Shocker: Baskerville is the Typeface of Truth"]]>
X(df=25) = 32.93, p=0.13

which does not meet the standard criterion needed to report a statistically significant finding (p<0.05). There may actually be an effect here, but given that 45,524 responses are not enough to reveal a statistically significant result, it must be an extremely small effect.]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/the-typeface-of-truth/35428/#comments 2012-08-10T19:55:41-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "Errol Morris Shocker: Baskerville is the Typeface of Truth"]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/the-typeface-of-truth/35428/#comments 2012-08-10T14:46:11-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "Errol Morris Shocker: Baskerville is the Typeface of Truth"]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/the-typeface-of-truth/35428/#comments 2012-08-09T22:17:25-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "Errol Morris Shocker: Baskerville is the Typeface of Truth"]]>
Similarly, if "this sentence is false" is false, then the sentence is true, which would in turn mean that it is actually false, but this would mean that it is true, and so on ad infinitum.

~ Imagine that in "Comic Sans." :-)

R/

p.s. Absolutely love-love-love the uppercase J & Q of Baskerville. But film makers are kind of weird anyway. Who knew?]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/the-typeface-of-truth/35428/#comments 2012-08-09T22:16:38-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "Errol Morris Shocker: Baskerville is the Typeface of Truth"]]>
Now *cough*, if you'll excuse me, I've got to write that *cough* email telling the office i'm sick today...hmmm...what font will I use...?]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/the-typeface-of-truth/35428/#comments 2012-08-09T09:21:41-05:00