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People here might be interested in a publication from [2014-12-19 Fri]
available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115069

Title: An Efficiency Comparison of Document Preparation Systems Used
in Academic Research and Development

Summary: Word users are more efficient and have less errors than even
experienced LaTeX users.

Someone here should repeat experiment and add Org into the mix, perhaps
Org -> ODT and/or Org -> LaTeX and see if it helps or hurts. I assume
Org would trump LaTeX, but would Org -> ODT or Org -> X -> DOCX (via
pandoc) beat straight Word?

  -k.