Be a part of a psychology experiment - in just 1 minute!

coolego1

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Hi guys,

My reason for writing today is to ask a favor of anyone with a spare minute and who might be willing to help me out with a psychology class I'm taking. We are supposed to have performed an experiment on people at school, but our group kind of slacked on that, so what do I do but turn to the internet! If this violates any terms or whatever, please let me know and I will cease and desist...

Basically, I digitized our experiment and put it up here. If anyone wouldn't mind taking the survey I would really appreciate it! All we ask you to do is look at a list of words for 30 seconds and try to remember as many of them as you can. Please don't cheat! We ask for your initials only because we need it to constitute a consent form, I won't try to use it as your signature for anything...

Edit:

**PLEASE DO THE SURVEY BEFORE READING THE REST OF THIS THREAD**

Also, please don't post the words from the survey in this thread so as not to spoil it for those who have not taken it.

Thank you so much,
coolego1
 

Triumph

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It took me more than a minute to read your post, so I didn't have any time left to do your experiment. Sorry.
 

Xylitol

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oh oops - I said Paul instead of my initials. Just change it for me or something
 

lyssword

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You better give us the results years after they have been analyzed, or I will angrily shake a fist at you!
 

imported_Imp

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Well, I'm retarded. I could only remember the last 3 I read. After that, I just started making up 3/4/5 letter words off the top of my head.
 

moonbit

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Interesting experiment, please do post your hypothesis and your results when you're done
 

DaveJ

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Oct 9, 1999
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From reading the thread I feel better now... I only got four, maybe five. :D
 

QED

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Did it.

I'm wondering if the experiment is to test which words men and women remember differengly. For some totally strange reason, I seemed to best remember only the "sex"-related words... weird, huh?