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Web Users Judge Sites Instantly
Ant writes "This Nature.com news article reports that potential readers can make snap decisions in just 50 milliseconds: 'Like the look of our website? Whatever the answer, the chances are you made your mind up within the first twentieth of a second. A study by researchers in Canada has shown that the snap decisions Internet users make about the quality of a web page have a lasting impact on their opinions...'"
This article is obviously rubbish
Waiting for ad.doubleclick.net...
It hasn't stopped us from visiting Slashdot. Over and over and over again...
I thought playboy.com was drivel when I was a young lad...but over the course of about 5 years, that all changed.
"Man judges book by cover"
No sig.
Excellent... now look up "pedant."
So Hitler didn't fund the Illuminadi after being abducted by big-headed aliens in a UFO in the Bermuda Triangle while covering-up his involvement in the American Civil War? Impossible!
Comment of the year
That's exactly why I resent grammar/spelling nazis--if everyone followed their advice, it'd be harder at a glance to filter out the idiots.
(That said, some of the smartest people I know are dyslexic. And rulebreakers in general.)
Commenters on /. have for years been able to judge articles without reading anything more than a marginally accurate 3-sentence summary riddled with typos. Why would scientists think the same would not apply to impressions of websites?
Obviously another waste of government research funds that could be better applied to [insert controversial proposed government project aimed at protecting against terrorism].
By the way, I didn't have a chance to read the article.
Goatse.cx has been shut down. You just get an error page about policy violations now. (Don't believe me? Check for yourself!)
Imagine that. A Slashdot post linking to Goatse and *not* being a troll! =)
They have, however, relocated to goatse.ca.
Um, you spelled "Consistently" wrong.
As a republican I feel it my responsibity to manufacture criminals. People need punished!
So you are trying to tell us you just read playboy.com for the mirror files...
this is loaner...my sig is in the shop