Vincent Gable’s Blog

April 6, 2008

Yes

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― Vincent Gable on April 6, 2008

Just a curiosity, but it happens that in a yes-no binary response test, the reaction time to select “no” is longer than for “yes.”

Source

I haven’t taken the time to verify this, or see if anyone has quantified the difference in response times.

UPDATE 2009-12-18: The technical term for this is Acquiescence Response Bias — the tendency to agree with any assertion, regardless of its content.

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