The "research", as seen from evidence left in the submission form and web page

[User670]

The "research", as seen from evidence left in the submission form and web page

[redtachyon2098]

Like you have mentioned, people have mentioned this before. I'm really curious what the results might be. Maybe an obvious correlation would show up? Maybe the majority didn't read the text, or submitted the wrong word because they cleared their cookies or used another device, in which case the results will be ruined. We would have to wait and see.

[HopperElec]

Ah this is cool!

I noticed the different branches of the repo and, after submitting, I knew it would be an A/B test but my assumption was that it was going to be something like in one scenario you're trying to get as few points as possible and in the other you're trying to get as many as possible so that they'd be put against each other expecting the other person to be trying to do the same as them. I didn't think about it much as I didn't want to spoil it for myself.

At first thought, I don't see how these changes (gender and scenario) will change the way people code, but thinking about it more it's really interesting to think about what changes these could end up making. I've been in scenarios like this in my own projects where I'm coding the exact same thing for 2 different projects, but don't realize until later and then I realize how drastically different I coded the same algorithm just due to the different use-cases.

Excited to see the results!

[ThatXliner]

Like you have mentioned, people have mentioned this before. I'm really curious what the results might be. Maybe an obvious correlation would show up? Maybe the majority didn't read the text, or submitted the wrong word because they cleared their cookies or used another device, in which case the results will be ruined. We would have to wait and see.

Honestly, I don't think the change will have much affect. That's my hypothesis