The interactive science experiment: RESULTS

A few weeks ago, I launched a randomized controlled web-experiment.  My question: does being asked to predict an answer, before being shown it, help you retain information better?  N=1600+ responses later, here's my results!

🔬 Ten World Stats (RESULTS) 🔬

Spoiler: null result, I messed up the design, science is about running head-first into brick walls until a breakthrough happens.

But, every bomb has a silver lining.  I want to do more web-experiments like this!  I think it'd be cool to do both amateur science & craft of edu-content – trying to use theory to improve my practice, and using the practice to improve the theory.

But that'd be a couple months out. For Feb/March, I want to finally do a project that's been on my mind for over a year: a game on anxiety disorder.  It would be another interactive story, similar to Coming Out Simulator.  I already did an explorable based off my experiences with anxiety (Neurotic Neurons), but that was a very shallow 5-minute dive.  This time I'd like to go deeper.

So, this is now Month 2 of my "escape from local maximum" thing. (see: Parable of the Hill Climber)  Still in exploration phase.  Still not sure what I want to do, how I can contribute to others using skills/interests unique to myself, what do I really value deep down, what the point of this all is, etc etc, standard existential crap that I can't tell if it's useful self-reflection or anxiety disorder.  (Hopefully one day I'll pin down all these thought-feeling butterflies onto an essay)

Either way, thank you all again so much for supporting me thus far, and helping me explore new ways to help people understand the world~

See you next time!

<3,
~ Nicky Case

P.S – Patreon Housekeeping: If you picked the "A Unique Polygon" reward, you can download your polygon as an avatar here! If you picked the "Badly Drawn Peep" reward, I'll send you an email soon-ish with a scan of your hand-drawn peep