Probing Human Response Times
Abstract
In a recent preprint eck, the temporal dynamics of an e-mail network has been investigated by J.P. Eckmann, E. Moses and D. Sergi. Specifically, the time period between an e-mail message and its reply were recorded. It will be shown here that their data agrees quantitatively with the frame work proposed to explain a recent experiment on the response of ``internauts'' to a news publication www2 despite differences in communication channels, topics, time-scale and socio-economic characteristics of the two population. This suggest a generalized response time distribution t-1 for human populations in the absence of deadlines with important implications for psychological and social studies as well the study of dynamical networks.
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