Comment by didibus

Comment by didibus 18 hours ago

The mystery seems pretty much "solved" to me.

We know where that number originated from, it's from this Gallup interview with Gloria Mark.

We also know the Gloria Mark paper corroborates the number:

> When people did resume work on the same day, it took an average length of time of 25 min. 26 sec (sd=54 min. 48 sec.).

From the Gloria Mark paper: https://ics.uci.edu/~gmark/CHI2005.pdf

Now we're only left guessing the discrepancy between her paper saying 25 minutes and 26 seconds and her quoting 23 minutes and 15 seconds when interviewed about it.

My guess is she didn't recall exactly and gave a ballpark as she remembered it.

glenstein 17 hours ago

That seems basically right. I wouldn't have called the Gallup interview the source but I think you're probably right about the paper and the explanation of the difference between what she said and the paper.

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didibus 15 hours ago

> I wouldn't have called the Gallup interview the source
We're probably arguing semantics, but why not?

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- glenstein 13 hours ago
  
  You can object to data and methodology of a study in a way you can't to a quotation. And oberien was clear about what they were asking for from the beginning.
  
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  didibus 7 hours ago
  
  It really wasn't clear to me.
  My first read was that they wanted to fact check what they heard, and were not able too.
  And my second read was that they were more interested in figuring out why 23 minutes and 15 seconds is the precise number being parroted.
  And now on my third read, I'm still unsure what exactly they're asking for. If they knew about the study showing 25 minutes, and the interview, what more are they asking?
  
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