I've always wondered what Postmates and other delivery services do about the no-parking-near-crowded restaurant problem. This seems like an interesting solution, to have designated "walkers" pick stuff up and hand it to the drivers.
From the article: "As it turns out, there is zero statistically significant gender difference in mental rotation ability after test-takers are asked to imagine themselves as stereotypical men for a few minutes. None. An entire standard deviation of female underperformance is negated on this condition."
I'd like to see this one replicated before I start believing it.
I wonder whether it could be useful for other things. If I want to be a better public speaker or tennis player, can I spend five minutes visualising myself as a better public speaker or tennis player? (I wouldn't be surprised if the answer is yes for the first since public speaking is so confidence-dependent, but what about the latter?)
It's surprising that years of conditioning to perform worse at spatial reasoning can be mitigated by reading a couple of paragraphs, but that's all. People having an equal ability at a mental function regardless of their sex is not even remotely surprising.
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I got the idea for this when watching The Bachelor last week, when the only minority of the season was eliminated. Which made me wonder - what does the trend look like if we zoom out to other seasons? How do ‘token minorities’ do on reality TV?
I looked at contestant elimination data from past seasons of The Bachelor. The data was comprehensive from 2009 onwards (there’s a lot of information online on recent seasons). Prior to 2009, the data was spottier so I left those out altogether.
For races of the contestants, I did include people of mixed ethnicities (for example, I counted a half-Filippino and half-Italian contestant as a minority). Mostly I went based off the photos, and looked for bios where they were available to confirm ethnicities.
Understandable. If it's any consolation, people in the app won't be able to see your phone number (it's used so waffle users who have you in your phone book will see you in their waffle contacts list), and we only ever SMS your number one-time to send you the confirmation code.
That would be the normal way to do it at scale for this feature. Though with a small amount of users, I suppose they could just send the app a list of all the numbers they have and compare to your phone book...
I'm actually really surprised from the feedback from HN as well. With stuff I've posted in the past, I'm used to a lot more criticism and like you was expecting 'not another photo sharing app' comments. Everything on here so far has been constructive / positive. Have been enjoying HN being a more positive place in general.
Feedback from HN can be unpredictable, but in this case I knew what the comments would be like because it's a great concept for an app.
What I like most about it is that encourages creativity. To extend this, do you think you'd extend the app to support drawing in the tiles? Also perhaps there could be a hidden tiles mode where all tiles are only revealed after the last one is in place.
I also agree with another commenter that it's important to know when a tile has been seen, but it looks like you have an idea on how to implement that.
Also, on the website homepage there doesn't seem to be any pictures of the app, I needed to go to the iTunes page before I saw how it looked, I'd say the homepage itself should be all you need to see to understand how the app will work.
Thanks! Send one to us! Hit the "plus" button once you've taken a waffle and add username karen or finbarr
Yeah we haven't implemented "seen" receipts but that's a good idea. We show you which waffles you've opened but now which ones your friends have - we could probably use that same UI element (a dot next to the waffle)
Ah yeah my bad, I designed that. Thanks for the feedback.
Another thing that is confusing design-wise in the app is how to add friends. Right now you have to take a picture first and then add friends. We need an add button on the home screen.
Likewise, got my wife on iOS to sign up, but shame I can't use it on Android yet. Hoping you can launch it there too soon, I really think this could be fun! Great take on picture messaging.
