I’ve done one of these experiments before,
but I didn’t run the experiment in HTML, and I didn’t have as many readers then
as I have now, and I realised something new about the experimental design that
should be controlled for, so I’m running another vagueness
experiment. If you’d be ever so kind as to follow that link and answer all
the questions that get thrown at you as honestly as is possible, I’d be most
appreciative. I’m keeping of count of who gets to what pages when, so I’ll be
able to interpret the results reasonably accurately, though I may have to do
some interpreting at some stages.

Anyway, I’ve been ever so annoyed at contextualist
claims about what will and won’t happen in forced march Sorites for a while now
that I thought I should do something serious about testing them. Then I
realised I knew nothing about experimental design, so I’m doing this instead.

UPDATE: This is a little embarrassing to admit, but I didn’t transfer the webcounter code to the website last night when I set up the experiment. So I haven’t been able to keep track of the results, which is a large part of the point. So could everyone who has taken the experiment before midday east coast time (1700 GMT) please either take the experiment again or, if you couldn’t be bothered clicking through all those things again, email me a summary of your choices and I’ll enter them by hand.

I’ve done one of these experiments before,
but I didn’t run the experiment in HTML, and I didn’t have as many readers then
as I have now, and I realised something new about the experimental design that
should be controlled for, so I’m running another vagueness
experiment. If you’d be ever so kind as to follow that link and answer all
the questions that get thrown at you as honestly as is possible, I’d be most
appreciative. I’m keeping of count of who gets to what pages when, so I’ll be
able to interpret the results reasonably accurately, though I may have to do
some interpreting at some stages.

Anyway, I’ve been ever so annoyed at contextualist
claims about what will and won’t happen in forced march Sorites for a while now
that I thought I should do something serious about testing them. Then I
realised I knew nothing about experimental design, so I’m doing this instead.

UPDATE: This is a little embarrassing to admit, but I didn’t transfer the webcounter code to the website last night when I set up the experiment. So I haven’t been able to keep track of the results, which is a large part of the point. So could everyone who has taken the experiment before midday east coast time (1700 GMT) please either take the experiment again or, if you couldn’t be bothered clicking through all those things again, email me a summary of your choices and I’ll enter them by hand.