Probing Human Response Times

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2003-05-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0305079v2

Physica A vol 338, no. 1-2, pp. 286-291 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

6 pages including 2 figures. Subm. for Proceedings of Frontier Science 2003

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physa.2004.02.054

In a recent preprint \cite{eck}, the temporal dynamics of an e-mail network has been investigated by J.P. Eckmann, E. Moses and D. Sergi. Specifically, the time period between an e-mail message and its reply were recorded. It will be shown here that their data agrees quantitatively with the frame work proposed to explain a recent experiment on the response of ``internauts'' to a news publication \cite{www2} despite differences in communication channels, topics, time-scale and socio-economic characteristics of the two population. This suggest a generalized response time distribution $\sim t^{-1}$ for human populations in the absence of deadlines with important implications for psychological and social studies as well the study of dynamical networks.

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