I want to do a social experiment

1. 2017-03-05 at 6:44 AM UTC

   #1
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   I want to set up a vending machine with the same product for every single option and see which sections sell out first
   
   If there are 8 columns (1-8) and 8 rows (A-H), which ones do you think would sell out first?
2. 2017-03-05 at 6:48 AM UTC

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   X X X X X X X X
   X X X X X X X X
   X X X X X X X X
   X X X X X X X X
   X X X X X X X X
   X X X X X X X X
   X X X X X X X X
   X X X X X X X X
   
   have all of these permalinked on an otherwise blank webpage
   
   have a counter for how many clicks each point gets
   
   
3. 2017-03-05 at 7:57 AM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   The rows in the middle you nitwit. There have already been studies done on the order of selection. Read a damn book for once.
4. 2017-03-05 at 8 AM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Originally posted by Dargo The rows in the middle you nitwit. There have already been studies done on the order of selection. Read a damn book for once.

   
   then again if you have to type something into a vending machine you're more likely to use A B C than J L K. if one effect suggests the top left and one suggest the middle you're likely to have an average between the two.
5. 2017-03-05 at 8:07 AM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Originally posted by puffy butts then again if you have to type something into a vending machine you're more likely to use A B C than J L K. if one effect suggests the top left and one suggest the middle you're likely to have an average between the two.

   
   Now apply this
6. 2017-03-05 at 8:11 AM UTC

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   A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8
   B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8
   C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8
   D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 D8
   E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7 E8
   F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8
   G1 G2 G3 G4 G5 G6 G7 G8
   H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 H6 H7 H8

   
   tbh if you pick something other than A1 you're kinda an edgy faggot fam
   
   if you want it to be ever more legit just draw a picture of a vending machine in MS paint, OP thinks its better to spend like 2000 dollars to do something that you can write out in 10 minutes
   
   Post last edited by puffy butts at 2017-03-05T08:14:30.824050+00:00
7. 2017-03-05 at 8:18 AM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   I'd probably pick the bottom row on order to remove the amount that my drink will be shaken
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8. 2017-03-05 at 8:19 AM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Originally posted by Hash Slinging Slasher I'd probably pick the bottom row on order to remove the amount that my drink will be shaken

   
   i H8 u
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9. 2017-03-05 at 8:55 AM UTC

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   Lanny Bird of Courage
   Yeah, honestly I'd expect A1 to be exhausted first. It might be interesting if you flipped the order so A1 was top right, like does our impulse to move in page-order override the appeal of first ordinal member? I kinda think so because of the deliberately low-cognition model of the vending machine (arrange items in an order physically similar to the input controls) invites a minimal intellectual investment. Maintaining the physical transformation requires less cognition than character recognition, parse, order, make judgment call, coordinate physical action, but you'd have to try it to find out.
10. 2017-03-05 at 8:56 AM UTC

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    Lanny Bird of Courage
    pppppppbbbt, im dtunk
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11. 2017-03-05 at 8:57 AM UTC

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    now we have to figure out why it matters
    
    your writing style is verbose and convoluted as usual
    
    you're saying you start moving you eyes on text before you comprehend the text, so it's less "cognitively stressful" to only do the first step.
12. 2017-03-05 at 8:59 AM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by Lanny Yeah, honestly I'd expect A1 to be exhausted first.

    
    Kind of like a phone book.
13. 2017-03-05 at 8:59 AM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by Rhymin Hymen Kind of like a phone book.

    
    a phone book is chronological silly
14. 2017-03-05 at 8:59 AM UTC

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    mmQ Lisa Turtle

    Originally posted by Lanny Yeah, honestly I'd expect A1 to be exhausted first. It might be interesting if you flipped the order so A1 was top right, like does our impulse to move in page-order override the appeal of first ordinal member? I kinda think so because of the deliberately low-cognition model of the vending machine (arrange items in an order physically similar to the input controls) invites a minimal intellectual investment. Maintaining the physical transformation requires less cognition than character recognition, parse, order, make judgment call, coordinate physical action, but you'd have to try it to find out.

    
    Lol
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15. 2017-03-05 at 9:01 AM UTC

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    I bet Lanny is one of those people with a very specific and subtle learning disability.
16. 2017-03-05 at 9:01 AM UTC

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    Lanny Bird of Courage
    IDK, maybe it means we should arrange the contents of vending machines in such a way that the highest profit margin items should exist in the locations that have highest mental priority. But then one wonders if some kind of ML approach wouldn't be able to make a reliable deduction in considerably less time than it would take to come to an answer via some route of experimental psychology and what machine learning might indicate in terms of corporate interests diverging from traditionally academic research. Research is expensive, paying some intern to implement and tune epsilon greedy for the hundredth time isn't.
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17. 2017-03-05 at 9:02 AM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by Lanny IDK, maybe it means we should arrange the contents of vending machines in such a way that the highest profit margin items should exist in the locations that have highest mental priority. But then one wonders if some kind of ML approach wouldn't be able to make a reliable deduction in considerably less time than it would take to come to an answer via some route of experimental psychology and what machine learning might indicate in terms of corporate interests diverging from traditionally academic research. Research is expensive, paying some intern to implement and tune epsilon greedy for the hundredth time isn't.

    
    fuck you
    
    also i think when someone sees something they want to buy its more relevant to them than 4TH POSITION X AXIS 6TH POSITION Y AXIS COGNITIVE LAYERING
18. 2017-03-05 at 9:03 AM UTC

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    Lanny Bird of Courage

    Originally posted by puffy butts I bet Lanny is one of those people with a very specific and subtle learning disability.

    
    you're so mean sploo, so mean ;_;
19. 2017-03-05 at 9:04 AM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by puffy butts a phone book is chronological silly

    
    Yup open one up to the a section boiiii
20. 2017-03-05 at 9:07 AM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by puffy butts i H8 u

    
    did no one get this?