Re:Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest flaws
by gjm11 on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @08:13AM
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I think between 2x and 20x, depending on things like whether you're wearing a long-sleeved shirt, what other stuff you have in your pocket, etc. I can't see how it could ever be 100x and even the 20x end of the range I gave is probably too high.
I suspect you're greatly underestimating how quickly you can check the time with a watch on your wrist. Even if literally no thought were required, human reflexes are on the order of 200ms latency; 100x more than that would be 20 seconds. In reality, there's a conscious element and that always slows things way down. I don't think the actual effective time taken to check the time by any means at all is ever less than about a second, even if it feels faster. Maaaybe half a second if you truly don't need to move anything but your eyeballs.
On the other hand, I find that it usually takes me 3-4s to get my phone out of my pocket and check the time on it.
Re:Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest flaws
by thaumasiotes on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @05:12PM
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I kept my watch. Still wear it. My Fermi estimate is that it's 100 times faster to check the time on your watch than on the phone you have to get out of your pocket. It makes a big difference.