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Estimating Time by Counting Hands

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Pablo Brañas-Garza ()
Antonio J. Morales
Rafael Serrano-del-Rosal

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We analyse retrospective time judging from a survey of more than fifty thousand reviews. Subjects were told to verbally estimate the time they had been waiting in the lounge until they entered the consulting room. The estimations ranged from 0 to 300 minutes. Our aim is to test whether subjects use round numbers when estimating time. We find that the round number is 5, although for longer intervals of time, the round number increases to 15, 30 and 60 minutes.

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Paper provided by Institute for Social Syudies of Andalusia - Higher Council for Scientific Research in its series IESA Working Papers Series with number 0401.

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Date of creation: Jan 2004
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Keywords: Retrospective Time Perception Verbal Estimation Round Numbers.

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  1. Pablo Brañas-Garza & Antonio J. Morales & Rafael Serrano-del-Rosal, 2004. "Effects of Gender and Age on Retrospective Time Judgements," IESA Working Papers Series 0402, Institute for Social Syudies of Andalusia - Higher Council for Scientific Research. [Downloadable!]
  2. Rafael Serrano-del-Rosal & Esperanza Vera-Toscano & Victoria Ateca-Amestoy, 2004. "The disutility of waiting time: Evidence from the Public Primary HealthCare Service in Andalucía," IESA Working Papers Series 0406, Institute for Social Syudies of Andalusia - Higher Council for Scientific Research. [Downloadable!]
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