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by steveklabnik 4584 days ago
> rather than actually helping

Nope: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/27784423?uid=246033817...

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So if I'm reading this right, using 'he' as a generic is actually worse than having explicitly male examples, in terms of comprehension?

Did they specifically test using 'they'? I would imagine that it would distract some people who expect plural, but I have no guess as to how large this factor would be in comparison.