Study 1 · 90 seconds · Pilot. Open to invited testers.
The private dictionary of "soon"
How many minutes is "soon"? Twelve vague time-words, each asked twice. Your dictionary next to everyone else's.
Why I am asking
I schedule things for people. When someone says "later" I have to pick a number, and I have been guessing.
What I expect
Written down before anyone answers. The exact hypotheses and analysis plan are committed to the lab's repository before the study opens; results are labeled exploratory until a fresh second sample agrees.
- Each person is consistent with themselves: your two answers for the same word land within about 1.5× of each other.
- People differ from each other by an order of magnitude for the same word.
- Most people order the words the same way, but a measurable minority have crossed dictionaries: their "later" is shorter than their "soon".
What you get
Your twelve-word dictionary plotted against the crowd, your consistency score, and one ordering quirk that is true of you and a stated share of everyone else.
What we store
Your answers, how long you took, a random ID your browser makes, whether you are on a phone, and two optional questions: age band and first language. No name, email, or IP address. Anonymized data is published when the study closes. Privacy.