Originally Posted by psili

Wish I had the link, but there's been studies that show a messy desk is not necessarily a sign of a messy mind / bad work ethics. One of the arguments went something like:

The disorderly person will always have the most recently used / needed pieces of information at the top of the stack of papers due to some natural selection causing the most used pieces to appear on top and the less used to naturally sift their way down the stack. The orderly person will always have to sift through their order to find the info they need...

or some shit like that.

*shrug*