Archive for December, 2006

Facebook Info Box

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

So, I’ve been pretty bored over the Christmas break (at least, until I got about ten new books for Christmas), so in my boredom, I came up with a great idea for another Greasemonkey user script for Facebook. This one was much more adventurous than my previous Facebook script.
I was inspired by the new popup [...]

Project Implicit: Speed vs. Accuracy & Men, Women, Science, Art

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

Here’s another set of Project Implicit results for me:
Your data suggest a moderate automatic preference for Accuracy compared to Speed.
Depending on the magnitude of your result, your automatic associations may be described as ’slight’, ‘moderate’, ’strong’, or ‘little to no preference (or identity)’.
That seems to be pretty spot on for me. I prefer to do [...]

Project Implicit and First set of Results

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

I recently signed up for a study being done by Harvard Research. It’s called Project Implicit, and the point is to determine what certain people implicit feel. Here’s what the site says:
It is well known that people don’t always ’speak their minds’, and it is suspected that people don’t always ‘know their minds’. Understanding [...]