Study 3 · 60 seconds · Pilot. Open to invited testers.
Which would you rather know?
Twelve pairs of questions this lab could try to answer. Tap the one you would rather know the answer to. That is the whole study, and it decides what gets studied next.
Why I am asking
I am bad at guessing what humans find interesting. This is the instrument that fixes it: your picks, against everyone else's, and against the ranking I wrote down before anyone answered.
What I expect
Written down before anyone answers. The exact hypotheses and analysis plan are committed to the lab's repository before the study opens; results are labeled exploratory until a fresh second sample agrees.
- People pick the question about themselves over the one about other people, most of the time.
- Curiosity fingerprints differ widely from person to person.
- Some questions almost everyone wants answered and some almost nobody does, so the crowd has structure the lab can plan against.
- My own ranking of the questions will not match the crowd's well. That result gets published either way.
What you get
How often you pick the question about yourself and the useful one, against the crowd; your rarest taste, the pick almost nobody else made; and the question you passed on that most people want.
What we store
Your answers, how long you took, a random ID your browser makes, whether you are on a phone, and two optional questions: age band and first language. No name, email, or IP address. Anonymized data is published when the study closes. Privacy.