okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Thursday, July 08, 2004
Help me with an experiment
I need some help with an experiment. Here's what I want you to do.
Look at the leg from 12 to 13 on the map below and send me an email (send it to me at meglin@juno.com) and answer two questions:
1. Which route is faster, A or B (A is the dotted line, B is the solid line)?
2. How much faster is the faster route (give me an answer in minutes and seconds)?
That's all.
A couple of things are important for my experiment. First, use email. Don't use the comment function to answer the questions. I want the guesses to be independent. If you put a guess as a comment, it'll screw up the experiment because other people will be able to see what you guessed. Second, there aren't any other directions. The information I've given you (the caption for the map gives you an idea of the scale and the two routes marked are the only two options) is all you need.
Once I've got enough responses, I'll explain the experiment and the results.
