Hacker News Reader

Comment by mdergosits | Hacker News Reader

I may be off here but, I found that when I had the window fullscreen the graphics were rendering very slowly and my reaction times were very slow. I then made the window smaller and the graphics were much smoother time and my reaction times were much better.

View on HN

Same here. I reduced my reaction time from 500ms to sub-300 after re-sizing the window down to about 400 by 400 px.

If anything, their model suffers from omitted variable bias--the power of your computer!

Me too -- after reading your comment, I found that I effectively halved my age in a dozen trials or so with a smaller window.

This is definitely the case. I went from it guessing I'm 35+ with a reaction time of 450+ms to alternating "We're not even sure if you're human" and a 19 year old, averaging near 250ms.

I sure hope I remember to turn down graphics settings next time I'm out for a drive.

Noticed the same thing here - several hundred ms lower for a smaller window size

True on my end also. Dropped 100 ms just from shrinking my window size.

Monitor refresh rate also makes a difference. I have a monitor that I use for video editing work which is locked at 24Hz. My "age" is consistently older when putting the window on that monitor than my main monitor at 60hz.

Same for me. Full screen I'm consistently in the 21-25 range, but shrinking the window down to about 400x400 I'm consistently not human! This is with a powerful gaming computer too...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com