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 Magnus Andersson (Sweden) | 2008-01-31 00:47:00 (CET) |
| Hi James, the digits are shown 1200 ms. I think I heard that in the real chimp test they were shown only half of that time, but that became so difficult so I increased it. I might add an option so that you can do it with 600 ms though, later on. | |
| James | 2008-01-30 19:12:17 (CET) |
| Hello magnus, can you tell me what is the time of appearence lasted for the digits. There is another test with 5 digits lasting for 210ms. i do much better in that one | |
| Magnus Andersson (Sweden) | 2007-12-31 21:51:58 (CET) |
| Happy New Year everyone! It is a couple of hours left here in Sweden, but I say it now. Magnus | |
| Magnus Andersson (Sweden) | 2007-12-25 00:42:06 (CET) |
| As you might have noticed, we have moved to a dedicated domain for this site, www.chimp-test.com, and if you enter the old domain you get redirected here automatically. Those of you who already built up some personal statistics (number of tests performed and average success rate) see that they have been reset now. I hope that did not cause any inconvenience for you. Hopefully your average will become higher now since you have practiced a bit already. :) | |
| Magnus Andersson (Sweden) | 2007-12-22 18:24:07 (CET) |
| The process depends on a lot of things going on in the mind. For example, it seems to me that there are periods when the mind is not very open for registering one particular digit, like 3 or so. During those periods, lasting for a few minutes, that digit remains kind of hidden, until you make a conscious effort to look for that particular digit, putting it back on the map of digits in your mind. | |
| Magnus Andersson (Sweden) | 2007-12-16 14:47:05 (CET) |
| Yeah, they are cool, one of them even does it successfully with the backside of his left hand while more concentrating on eating his peanut with his right hand. | |
| Bo Hellstrom (Sweden) | 2007-12-14 21:39:02 (CET) |
| Wow, this is intrigueing! I guess that marking with the mouse pointer is much slower than marking with your finger on a pressure sensing screen but still.... I must admire the chimps! | |
| Magnus Andersson (Sweden) | 2007-12-14 14:40:28 (CET) |
| I think you are right that it has a lot to do with how we register the information. I found that I do better if I take a snapshot, as you say, rather than going 1, 2, 3, when I look at the digits. But I also found that one snapshot is sometimes not enough, since it is difficult to register so many things at once, so I tried to instead quickly divide what I see into two groups and taking one snapshot of each group. That seemed to help. I also found that resizing the browser window, making it smaller, so that the digits are not too spread out helps a lot. Another thing is that there is a memory in the eyes as such, which you will experience more clearly if you do now move around in the picture with your eyes. So for half a second or so after the digits are covered you will actually see inverted (black) digits inside the white squares. I am able to "look" at those digits during that short period which becomes an extra observation time for me, increasing my ability to memorize. | |
| Morgan (United Kingdom) | 2007-12-14 13:17:31 (CET) |
| Surely this is more to do with how we capture the information than to do with memory or intelligence? For example I know I was looking at the images and going there is 1, there is 2, there is 3 etc, rather than being able to take a snapshot of the data. Isn't this more to do with the way us humans process and look for order in information than anything else? Does anyone have information on the actual study from Japan? | |
| Magnus Andersson (Sweden) | 2007-12-14 11:35:26 (CET) |
| Now, after having done the test for a longer period of time, my average is not around 60%, as I thought it was, before I implemented the personal statistics. My average is now stabilizing around 30%. I do best in the morning, after a good night's sleep. | |