Web Users Judge Sites in the Blink of an Eye 233
dogbolter writes "Nature.com is reporting on a study by Canadian researcher Gitte Lindgaard of Carleton University that visitors to a webpage can make up their minds about the quality of the page within just 50 milliseconds." From the article: "We all know that first impressions count, but this study shows that the brain can make flash judgments almost as fast as the eye can take in the information. The discovery came as a surprise to some experts. "My colleagues believed it would be impossible to really see anything in less than 500 milliseconds," says Gitte Lindgaard of Carleton University in Ottawa, who has published the research in the journal Behaviour and Information Technology. Instead they found that impressions were made in the first 50 milliseconds of viewing."
dupe (Score:5, Funny)
dupe in 50 milliseconds (Score:0, Funny)
I was going to RTFA (Score:5, Funny)
Kinda like slashdot editors... (Score:4, Funny)
In other news... (Score:4, Funny)
Coming up next: (Score:5, Funny)
Hmm (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, deja-vu ! (Score:5, Funny)
Posted Yesterday by Zonk (Score:5, Funny)
And in other news (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Question (Score:5, Funny)
Yes but don't worry, it'll be posted again soon
Wow.. I must be blinking fast.. (Score:3, Funny)
It is proven! (Score:2, Funny)
Slasdot editors spend 50 miliseconds before approving stories. No wonder so many dupes...
Re:Oh, deja-vu ! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmm, well. (Score:5, Funny)
To appreciate the effect fully, go back to the original article and (if you have points left) moderate everything redundant.
Aah, the power of Slashdot...
Re:Coming up next: (Score:4, Funny)
For subscribers only
Re:Coming up next: (Score:1, Funny)
Home Storage - what should I do, where should I go?
Followed by
Home Storage - where should I go and what should I do?
Coming up a review of the past hours' news.
Re:Question (Score:4, Funny)
That is very unfair. Some manage to be all three.
But, in reply the the GPP, the reason that people get worked up is that it serves as a demonstration that the editors don't appear to care. They don't read the site, and they don't even bother to read the "problems with the article" e-mails that people send in. It is possible that dupes are a deliberate ploy to generate page hits - after all who can be that consistents careless - but this would be even worse. Or it could be just plain incompetence.
None reflect well on the site.
Re:Posted Yesterday by Zonk (Score:4, Funny)
the only one I found was:
"as a funny offtopic info. [slashdot.org] apparently playboy mirrors files for eclipse, apache, freebsd, and some other stuff! coolness. I fuond this out in some other article clicking around. look"
The funny thing is that the poster specified his comment was "Funny" and "Offtopic"... and it got modified as +5 Informative haha
Re:Free will is exercised unconsciously (Score:4, Funny)
This paged needed me 1.875 seconds to load. (Score:2, Funny)
Browser: "<html
me: "No. I don't like this page."