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From: Robert Carlson [mailto:Raacc@AOL.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 8:30 PM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Human Reaction Time
We just did the drop/catch meter stick experiment and found human reaction
time to be 0.21 s with a standard deviation of 0.05 s. I searched the
internet and found a reference that matched the mean closely, but could not
find a reference for the standard deviation. What have others found for
this
experiment?
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Those results are consistent with what we get from a number of reaction time
measurements. We do the "drop/catch" - and we also do an experiment in
which a "signal" is transmitted around a circle of students. The signal
ranges from a "hand squeeze" to a punch on the shoulder, depending on the
testosterone level of the class.
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