#wait-time

[0-unexpected-error-blog]

Been working with some hardware in these past few weeks. Unlike programming where you just can download plugin if you are missing something - working with hardware, missing something might delay your project for a week. Going back to my programming.

@0-unexpected-error

[talkinteeth-blog]

Answer-time, wait-time

What do you do when a patient takes unusually long to answer, specially to something as trivial as his age? Daydreaming, is what I was doing.

Starting with 'why the silence' to 'is he calculating his age', to "it's taking too long, he doesn't seem that old', and finally to 'really, how can one forget his age'.

Anyways, his firm '37' woke me up from this reverie and got me thinking as to what is an average answer-time/wait-time (the time the questioner waits) for such routine questions. How long does it take for me to perceive the answer to be an instant one or a well-thought-out one.

Google took only 0.29 sec to give me around 20 pages of links (definitely instantaneous if google was the patient), and I took another 45 min to find-out that the wait-time is as little as 0.3 sec for an instant response, 0.7-1.4 sec for a well-thought-out answer and that if the patient is taking more than 3 min it's time to check his pulse.