As a reader, I’d find it quite useful to be able to jump back from the footnote to where I was in the main text. Not being able to do so slows me down, especially on long articles and when reading on an iPad (where going back to “find in page” every time is a bit annoying).
As a (just beginning to be a) writer, it’d be nice to have a footnote option pop up when I highlight text (like italics, linking, etc.), rather than having to go into markdown mode for that. (Or am I just missing the easy, WYSIWYG-mode way of doing footnotes?)
I know I’m very late to this thread, but I wanted to mention that this article also provides reasons to not place too much weight on Sherif’s results. (Although of course the broad inferences drawn from his results might happen to be true anyway.) In particular, the article suggests Sherif had attempted a similar study earlier (in another location, with other boys), did not find the results he wanted (despite manipulation), and then suppressed that attempt’s results:
That said, the article doesn’t seem to provide evidence of substantial manipulation during the Robbers Cave study itself. So perhaps the conclusion to draw from Sherif’s pair of studies is that, under such conditions, intense intergroup conflict will arise naturally roughly half the time.