Technical Translation: Usability Strategies for Translating Technical Documentation

Results of QUIS Usability Survey 
A two-sided Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney exact test of the null hypothesis of 
no difference between the average overall score for the Control group and 
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Experimental group was conducted. This yielded a 
p-value of 0.0079

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Results of Usability Evaluation
scores across the two groups. On the basis of the data collected, members of 
the Experimental group were, on average, 24.3% more satisfied with the 
user guide than the Control group. Examining the graph of average re-
sponses from the QUIS questionnaire (Figure 9), however, it immediately 
becomes apparent that there are a number of areas where there is no major 
difference visible between the two groups. The following paragraphs will 
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Figure 9: Average Responses in User Satisfaction Survey