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Underworld 1020
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Posted: 29th Oct 2006 00:51 Edited at: 1st Nov 2006 05:52
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No more participants are needed, thanks again.

I'm doing a study for my statistics class. To participate in this study all you must do is read the scenario, and then answer two quick questions by posting your answers here in this thread.
BUT, be sure to post your answers in a code snippet box.

The Scenario


Question #1


Question #2


Thanks in advance.
And, sorry again to all those that filled out the form before.
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Robot
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Hope my info will help. I can't see you getting many left handed people though, and why only 25?
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I received your info, thankyou . And really the only reason for the 25 is because "freewebs.com" will only allow me 25 submissions, and I'm not sure if that is for each day or month or whatever. And 25 is good anyways, but if I don't get anything interesting I could always continue it in this thread. Anyways thanks for participating.
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Posted: 29th Oct 2006 01:08 Edited at: 29th Oct 2006 01:39
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Posted: 29th Oct 2006 01:11 Edited at: 29th Oct 2006 01:11
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You shouldn't really say anything about it, as comments can physcologically influence the participant

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Should be okay, unless they scroll down, read the message and then take the quiz...

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maybe you should put it in to code brackets.
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Posted: 29th Oct 2006 01:14 Edited at: 29th Oct 2006 01:15
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In which case I'm in the minority .

[EDIT] as suggested, put in code brackets




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Posted: 29th Oct 2006 01:14 Edited at: 29th Oct 2006 17:50
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Quote: "I believe you'll find that the majority of right-handed people would take the left path"



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Posted: 29th Oct 2006 01:28 Edited at: 29th Oct 2006 01:29
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Yes, please put anything that might influence someone's decission in code brackets.



Left-Handers needed!
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That should be at least one left-hander for you.

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I'm left hander. And.... I felt I had to choose what I did.



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Posted: 29th Oct 2006 01:52 Edited at: 29th Oct 2006 01:56
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i believe you'll find westerners will choose the left path, and people who read/write arabic as their primary language will take the right path.

this is because people like things in order of what they read. its psycology we learnt in drama. the audience feels more comofortable watching events happen on the left side of the stage than the right.

if a sequence of events is being performed, the audience subconsiously enjoys it more if it is being played out from left to right, simply because this is the way our eyes are used to travelling when working out a chain of events, or rather a chain of words in a book.

with arabs it is vise-versa because arabic is read right to left.

example

i suppose this could also be said for clocks. i'm guessing because we process circular information clockwise, because we've trained ourselves to do that at the early age when we first learnt to read a clock. if you imagine standing on the edge of the clock, facing inwards- towards grandma, clockwise is leftwards.

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i think the most dominant influence will be they way people travel to regularly. im guessing a person who makes a regular journey, ie to work or school, where most of the turns are left, will choose the left route to go to grandma, since its what they're use to, and people who mostly do right turns will turn right to grandmas.
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Well, Da Vinci was a lefty, and he wrote mirrored. Then there's the type of writing where you write 'as a plough' - i.e. from one side of the paper to the other, then down a line and back across the page again. I'm not sure it's so simple as what way we read.

Mind you - you may want to look in to the research that's already been done for supermarkets - there's a lot of 'what way people want to go around a shop' research that gets done.

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Quote: "I might be wrong then - for left-handed persons anyway"


I think you're right, in my case you were;



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I am a righty, turned right because last time I took a left, I got hit by a car Never turning left again

edit: I was walking left on a trail like that which you described and got hit by a car.

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Ack... you're at your max.
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Ya I woulda done it but too many people have

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Posted: 29th Oct 2006 08:12 Edited at: 29th Oct 2006 08:40
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hmmmm...that didn't work too well...It started off good and then like the last 10 or so submissions were blank, I only ended up with like 16 vaild results. Here's the results I got:


So, I'm going to have you guys just post your answers here in this thread because I'm going to need more data.
!!!---Please read my first post again for details---!!!
Thanks again.
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So we resubmit data if we've already done it?
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Posted: 29th Oct 2006 10:01 Edited at: 29th Oct 2006 10:02
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Quote: "So we resubmit data if we've already done it?"

Yes, I'm very sorry, but most of the results didn't even go through right and I wasn't able to get enough data.

So, everyone just do what "Robot" did, put your answers here in a code snippet box.
Thanks again.
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I posted mine here anyway, to make things easy, I'll do it again



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Posted: 29th Oct 2006 11:37 Edited at: 29th Oct 2006 11:38
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No really, I would go the way that I hadn't gone before. Or maybe I would go the same way.. . The way that I first go wouldn't be decided by the fact that I'm right-handed.

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Personally, I think this has no physcological or statistical bearing what-so-ever - it is an arbitrary decision, most likely leading to a arbitrary choice in direction (I just picked randomly; there was no logical element to my choice)

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Quote: "Personally, I think this has no physcological or statistical bearing what-so-ever - it is an arbitrary decision, most likely leading to a arbitrary choice in direction (I just picked randomly; there was no logical element to my choice)"

indeed, i'm right handed, and yesterday i chose left.

but now i feel like the right side

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Why?


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I felt safer that way

Cocacola and Pepsi aren't that differnt. Deal with it.
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Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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Thanks for the submissions guys Since I don't have a limit anymore we can just keep going for a while, well at least till monday when I need to be done collecting data. I've got to do a proposal and present it to the professor to see if I'm doing things correct or not. And I'm sure theres a lot more variables to this study, but it doesn't hurt to see if there is anything interesting here. I won't know until I've done it, thats the point. So, thanks for all those who have been participating, keep it up guys!
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Just asked the wife and she answered like I did above, i.e.



So chalk another one for the "funny ones".

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edit for typo

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Thanks guys, everything seems to be going well. I've marked down everyone who has posted so far
(If you only did the form then you need to post here as well).

Here's the data I got so far:


If you see any mistakes, let me know(Benjamin, I'm not sure on your answers).
I'll let you guys keep going for a little longer, probably till monday afternoon.
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Ok, were at 26 vaild entries. And here they are:


I would like to get only 4 more to make it 30.
Thanks again.
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Alriiiight.


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