Baity headline, but good content. Links to, and covers the observations discussed in this Harvard paper [1]. Essentially, people tend to be skeptical when what

Baity headline, but good content. Links to, and covers the observations discussed in this Harvard paper [1]. Essentially, people tend to be skeptical when what they perceive as an 'important' computation happens too quickly. By introducing an artifical delay, you're successfully fooling users into believing the results are more trustworthy. [1] http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=40158 http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=40158