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You can read the original description of the apparatus here: http://galton.org/bib/JournalItem.aspx_action=view_id=180 http://galton.org/bib/JournalItem.aspx_a
by iguy 8y ago
You can read the original description of the apparatus here:
http://galton.org/bib/JournalItem.aspx_action=view_id=180 http://galton.org/bib/JournalItem.aspx_action=view_id=180
It's a pendulum which is released (either silently or with a click), and a button for the subject which records the angle at which it was pressed.
- hymen0ptera 8y agoIt doesn't sound like they actually compared apples to apples by performing the same test as a modern replication of results though. A similar apparatus is not named or sited, when noting the modern equivalent. Does that matter? Couldn't there be side-effects for measure reation time to different stimuli? Also, did modern 1941 measurements operate with the benefit of newer advancements, such as high-speed cinematography to produce objective slow-motion footage?