[spravin]

The positioning of the dropdown clearly has a lot of influence on the results. People are horrible random number generators! In this case, people are unlikely to choose the ends (1/9) or the center (5) leading to a bimodal distribution with two modes at 4 and 7.

[citricsquid]

The number picker was random, some people got a drop down, some got a list of numbers, some got a slider etc etc etc

[kmiyer]

Note however that different types of input systems were used. Refreshes show the following different types:

  * A slider that need to be dragged to choose a value.
  * A list of numbers shown with highlighting on hover.
  * An input cursor that on hover changes to a list of numbers (within a curved border this time).
  * A text field (enclosed in a circular border), allowing manual input.

I'm quite interested in how results varied depending upon input type (possibly more interesting than seeing how they vary by referrer).

[nixy]

Well, why don't you have a look? :) http://nfrom1to10.appspot.com/results/

[risotto]

In thinking back, that's exactly why I picked 4.

I just clicked whatever was closest because I wasn't even thinking about the exercise.