Comment by regularfry
4 hours ago
Oh, I can absolutely believe it. Humans are deeply irrational, especially about things that mess about in time frames too short for our conscious thought processes to kick in. Instant but confident sounding (and confident sounding because it's instant) will beat slower every time. You don't know which is correct until a long time after you've made a decision to trust it, or whether you like it.
> Instant but confident sounding (and confident sounding because it's instant) will beat slower every time.
Sure, but I am skeptical that users are actually saying "I prefer wrong answers over lag", which is what the post I responded to implied.
This is different to user's saying "I prefer quick answers to laggy answers", which is what I presume they may have said.
To actually settle this, the feedback must answer the question "Do you want wrong answers quickly or correct answers with an added 0.2 second delay?" because, well, those are the only two options right now.
> actually saying
Yeah, I don't think that's the form of the feedback here.
Dunno. Feels like stated vs revealed preferences to me. Of course everyone will _say_ they want the wrong answers, but I can totally see users getting annoyed at slow responses, thinking that the developers should've traded accuracy for quicker responses. (or not thinking that at all, just demanding quicker responses unconditionally)
No I think they are saying no one would say they want wrong answers. People say they want fast answers and they are implying they should also be correct.