Description:
We analyse retrospective time judging from a survey of more than fifty
thousand reviews. Subjects were told to verbally estimate the time they had
been waiting in the lounge until they entered the consulting room. The
estimations ranged from 0 to 300 minutes. Our aim is to test whether
subjects use round numbers when estimating time. We find that the round
number is 5, although for longer intervals of time, the round number
increases to 15, 30 and 60 minutes.