Total answering, 111. Losing ideas through too slow means of recording,
43; 10 of these prevent a final loss by making notes. Not losing, 55.
In tabulating the means of recording affording least check or preferred
for general reasons, in several instances where a writer habitually
still uses more than one, a score has been given for each. The heavy
predominance of the typewriter was rather surprising to the tabulator,
as was also the greater use of pencil than of pen. Typewriter 63; pencil
24; pen 23 (4 of these specified fountain pen and 1 a goose quill);
longhand (neither pen nor pencil specified) 1; dictation to stenographer
9; any 1; any but stenographer 1. No dictaphone except 1 prospect.
This tabulation, like all others in this book, though carefully made,
can not be exact, some answers not lending themselves to definite or
even entirely satisfactory tabulation. This is of little moment, since
in all cases the only purpose to be served is that of ascertaining
general tendencies and drawing general comparisons.