Instinct

seven quick picks. the paper keeps how you made them.

a gut check on a chart recorder: push the pen to one of two everyday words before the paper reaches it; the strip records how fast you leaned, blots where you wavered, and circles the pair that made you hesitate

A gut check on a chart recorder. Seven everyday pairs feed down the paper, each a little faster than the last, and the pen goes where your finger goes; a box takes whatever lane the pen is in when it reaches the rail. The paper keeps how you got there: how long you took to lean once you could read the words, and an ink blot wherever you leaned one way and then went the other. At the end the strip pulls back into a receipt: your gut is the middle of your lean times, and the pair circled is the one you wavered on most, or, if you never wavered, the one you were slowest on. Every number is yours, measured from this run on this phone and kept nowhere; nothing here is about anyone else, because nothing about anyone else is counted.

Concepts: social-norms, polling.

An interactive you play with one thumb, on Wundr.