Recruiting Trial

Does sending emails using bold text affect response time?

I'm interested to know whether sending emails to people in bold text will increase or decrease the average amount of time it takes to receive a reply. To calculate the average amount of time, add up the response times for each email and divide by the number responses. Only count emails that you think would legitimately require a response.

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TRIAL DETAILS

Measuring (Time)

How long (in minutes) did it take for you to receive a response to your email? Note: AutoReply messages do not count.

Reporting

Reporting Once only

Participants &
Observations

Requiring 20 participants

2 completed participants so far

0 accepted randomization but not yet provided outcome data

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I'm interested to know whether sending emails to people in bold text will increase or decrease the average amount of time it takes to receive a reply. To calculate the average amount of time, add up the response times for each email and divide by the number responses. Only count emails that you think would legitimately require a response.

Instructions for the two groups

Instructions for Group A

The text in all of the emails that you send today must be made up entirely of bold formatted text.

Instructions for Group B

The text in all of the emails you send today must not feature any bold formatting.

COMMENTS ON THIS TRIAL


June 25, 2013, 2:42 p.m.

Erm - haven't actually reported data, clicked on the 'report date' link to see what format you wanted the data in and received a server error - the site now seems to have registered this as providing data. Also - how many emails should I average? Do you want the number of emails in my average? Why not just the raw data?

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