While I agree with this take, and I vastly prefer text based sources to video, is this true for everyone? This seems to support that, though I bet the study is a little biased:
“More students preferred reading than preferred video (30% to 20%, the other 50% preferred other forms of learning like in-person lectures and hands-on learning). And students who’d consumed the material via reading performed slightly better on the post-learning assessment than students who watched video, although the study’s numbers were small enough that this difference was not statistically significant.”
I've always preferred text because we tend to read faster than people can talk. I'll use videos for things where I need to see what they're talking about - e.g., car repair.
