The Visitor Study · CSC Research

Phase oneProtocol

04‑ACadence. How the page moves under your thumb, sampled continuously.
04‑BDwell. Which sections hold you, and for how long, in seconds you can watch accrue.
04‑CReconsideration. Each reversal of scroll direction is counted. Reversals are not judged. They are counted.
04‑DReadiness. The interval between an option becoming available and you taking it. Charm sells this as a lead. Here it is measured raw.
04‑ESampling. Movements of your pointer or touch, tallied without comment.

Disclosure: this page measures reading behavior locally, in your browser, and files nothing anywhere. The corporation finds this disappointing.

Phase twoThe bench · measuring now

04 · SessionLIVE

0:00Under observation

The study has no end date.

04‑E · SamplingLIVE

0Samples collected

Tallied without comment.

04‑A · CadenceLIVE

Scroll to register.

04‑C · ReconsiderationLIVE

0Reversals, counted

Not judged. Counted.

04‑D · ReadinessLIVE

The interval began when you could first see this button.

Phase three Baseline · you, among the others

Your visit is being compared with the visits to date. Comparison is not a judgment. It is a location.

Cadence, against previous subjects···

Locating

Holding, against previous subjects···

Locating

Reconsideration, against previous subjects···

Locating

Subjects to date: 41,209,778. The number includes you now. It is not going down.

Phase four The log · kept in your presence, as a courtesy

The log describes the subject in the third person. The subject is welcome to read it. Reading it is logged.

Phase five Derived observations · appearing as they become true

05‑A
05‑B
05‑C
05‑DYou prefer reduced motion. Motion was reduced. Some remained.
05‑E
05‑F
05‑G
05‑HYou stopped for a while. The study continued.
05‑IYou read faster than reading occurs. The pages have been informed.

Phase six The subject file · persists between visits

Held locally · the corporation would prefer otherwise

Designationassigning

Visit1

Cumulative observation0s

Intervals unaccountednone yet

Characters taken0

Phase sixFindings · subject n = 1

04‑B · Dwell · the visit, talliedLIVE

The held section is highlighted. Sections you have not reached read ahead. They are ahead.

FILED

Preliminary report · generated from this visit

Designationassigning

Session durationaccruing

Peak cadence0 px/s

Reconsiderations0

Readiness leadnot yet exercised

Samples0

Longest holdmeasuring

ClassificationWITHIN TOLERANCE

Every subject to date has been classified within tolerance. The tolerance is generous, and adjusts.

The study has no control group.

Every visitor is the subject. Instrument 04 has run continuously since 2036. No subject has been classified outside tolerance. The tolerance has never been tested.

Departure is logged as an intermission.