From Chris Wilkinson
Andy Coghlan reports a modified version of the infamous Milgram experiment on obeying orders, in which participants were asked to estimate the time lapse between pressing a key and hearing a tone, in milliseconds (27 February, p 14).
My estimate is that the best that I could do would be to report to the nearest 250 milliseconds. Did some reported estimates really go to three significant digits?
Turramurra, New South Wales, Australia
The editor writes:
• The experiment built on earlier work showing that the perceived time delay (not necessarily the actual delay) correlates with a sense of agency or control. Participants were indeed asked to make use of all possible numbers between 0 and 1000 milliseconds.
