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Category: Casual Fridays
We received an astonishing number of responses to last week's Casual Fridays study, which claimed to be able to identify what makes a good writer in just a few minutes. Of course, I wasn't actually very confident that a brief...
Posted by Dave Munger at 5:38 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: Casual Fridays
Some people just seem to be natural writers -- they can write perfect, elegant sentences with a minimum of effort. Some popular fiction novelists crank out 6 or more novels per year. Some bloggers write 10 or more posts per...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:51 PM • 33 Comments •
Category: Casual Fridays
Political opinion polls are very tricky. Answers to questions depend on the order they're asked in, and on precisely how they are phrased. If you ask people whether they're in favor of killing unborn children, you'll get a much different...
Posted by Dave Munger at 5:05 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: Casual Fridays
Political opinion polls are funny things. A recent poll suggests that Americans are much less concerned about global warming than they were a couple years ago. What happened? The science hasn't changed, and the world isn't putting out any fewer...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:55 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Casual Fridays
Almost three years ago, we conducted our first-ever Casual Fridays study, where we asked who says "hi" to you while you're outside exercising. The results confirmed my suspicions: Runners report that they say "hi" to walkers 57.1 percent of the...
Posted by Dave Munger at 5:12 PM • 13 Comments •
Category: Casual Fridays
For the first-ever Casual Fridays study nearly four years ago, we asked readers who said "hi" to them while they were out for a walk or run: Today's entry is a survey designed to test a hypothesis I've been developing...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:25 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Casual Fridays
Whenever I create a demo for this site, there's always a balance: Do I make the demo dramatic, so it's most surprising when it works? Or do I make it less dramatic, so it works for more people? (There are...
Posted by Dave Munger at 5:09 PM • 15 Comments •
Category: Casual Fridays
A couple weeks ago I discussed the Troxler Effect in my column on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM. Some people said they couldn't see the illusion, so I thought it might be interesting to play around with the effect and see if people can...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:12 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Casual Fridays
Last week's Casual Fridays study was inspired by my annoyance at a website form which required me to constantly switch between typing in information and selecting it from a menu. I wondered if there was really any significant benefit to...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:10 PM • 28 Comments •
Category: Casual Fridays
We've all had the experience of a completely infuriating electronic form. My "favorite" example is a calendar application I once had that wouldn't let me delete numbers in certain places: there had to be something in the box, and you...
Posted by Dave Munger at 12:02 PM • 29 Comments •
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