An Experiment

[muninnhuginn]

An investigation into whether the length of hard to read comments at the end of English assignments is affected by where the end of the assignment falls on the page.
Subject: the Man in the Norfolk Jacket with Well-Nigh Illegible Handwriting (NJ)
Equipment:
- school exercise book
- fountain pen or Biro
The Scope: biweekly Humanities/English homework over a period of seven years (minus one in the middle)
Method
1. Complete homework ensuring a range of endpoints on the page, e.g. only one line used, or halfway down, or at the end of the last available line.
2. Compare the length of comment to the finishing point.
Results
There was a high chance that comments would fill the entire available space on the page, so that the page was generally filled. At a crucial point at about two blank lines, comments would not be concise, but would instead spread onto the next page, possibly even filling it. With only a few lines available, comments might also extend into the side margin, bottom margin, or, rarely, top margin.

[Yup, I really did play this game.]