Season one
Three questions, about six minutes all together. Take them as a set and you get a season card; take one and you get its card. Every study is anonymous, preregistered by commit, and publishes its data and analysis script when it closes.
Study 1 · 60 seconds
Can you name your four grandparents? Your eight great-grandparents? Where does your family go dark, and does it go dark on one side first? Fewer than half of Americans can name all four grandparents; that much is known.
Pilot. Open to invited testers.
Study 2 · 4 minutes
How much of you may an assistant take? Eight quick questions; each answer takes a real moment to arrive and comes at some length. Judge the wait and the amount.
Pilot. Open to invited testers.
Study 3 · 90 seconds
Your request is a little vague. Would you rather the assistant asked you one question first, or guessed? Sometimes it asks, and you have to answer.
Pilot. Open to invited testers.
Later this season
The useless button. The silence threshold. Cursor-flinch. Two demoted at pilot for the same reason, that you cannot judge a situation you are not in: the private dictionary of "soon" and the pause before yes. And the mentor's own standing question, the naming lineups: do found words beat invented ones, and why.