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The interactive science experiment: RESULTS
🕑 Added 2019-01-31 22:03:12 +0000 UTCA few weeks ago, I launched a randomized controlled web-experiment. My question: does being asked to predict an answer, before being shown it, help you retain information better? N=1600+ responses later, here's my results!
Spoiler: null result, I messed up the design, science is about running head-first into brick walls until a breakthrough happens.
But, every bomb has a silver lining. I want to do more web-experiments like this! I think it'd be cool to do both amateur science & craft of edu-content – trying to use theory to improve my practice, and using the practice to improve the theory.
But that'd be a couple months out. For Feb/March, I want to finally do a project that's been on my mind for over a year: a game on anxiety disorder. It would be another interactive story, similar to Coming Out Simulator. I already did an explorable based off my experiences with anxiety (Neurotic Neurons), but that was a very shallow 5-minute dive. This time I'd like to go deeper.
So, this is now Month 2 of my "escape from local maximum" thing. (see: Parable of the Hill Climber) Still in exploration phase. Still not sure what I want to do, how I can contribute to others using skills/interests unique to myself, what do I really value deep down, what the point of this all is, etc etc, standard existential crap that I can't tell if it's useful self-reflection or anxiety disorder. (Hopefully one day I'll pin down all these thought-feeling butterflies onto an essay)
Either way, thank you all again so much for supporting me thus far, and helping me explore new ways to help people understand the world~
See you next time!
<3,
~ Nicky Case
P.S – Patreon Housekeeping: If you picked the "A Unique Polygon" reward, you can download your polygon as an avatar here! If you picked the "Badly Drawn Peep" reward, I'll send you an email soon-ish with a scan of your hand-drawn peep
Comments
IHateSigningUpForThings
How did it become Null?
I'd advise next time trying to do a smaller run of the test on maybe no more than n=100 (although n=20 might be better for this). So you can spot problems early. Interesting results either way!
Liz Av
I just want to let you know that the scientific protocol had me spitting at my keyboard due to laughter.
