Comments on Crossword Unclued: Cryptic Crosswords A Threat To Criminal Justice?

This is ridiculous. First, the statistical sampli...

2009-11-02T08:13:07.325+05:30

This is ridiculous. First, the statistical sampling is too small. Sixty people means only 15 persons were assigned to each activity. If you assume that at least 30% of the populace does badly at facial recognition, then there's a possibility a larger percentage of these people ended up in the cryptic group.

Second, there's no control group or baseline. Teh control group should have been an equal number given no activity to do. A baseline could be achieved by asking the participants to to the facial recognition test before and after the activities, and comparing the results.

The results -- which are specious at best -- apply only to the people involved in the test, not the population at large.

Being an inveterate solver of cryptic puzzles and ...

2009-10-27T22:26:30.293+05:30

Being an inveterate solver of cryptic puzzles and having just finished one, I agree with the finding of the research, Sachchu.

Hi Shuchi, I wonder if it is because of this, that...

2009-10-27T20:20:51.401+05:30

Hi Shuchi,
I wonder if it is because of this, that at times I just can't link a face to a name!!!
Notwithstanding, that is not going to stop me from doing CW's
Ciao,
Col Gopinath