Purpose of Experiments
How quickly can you react?
Are you quicker with the hand you normally write with?
Do younger people have faster reactions?
Do you get quicker with practice?
You can go directly to the online experiments to gather some data.
In addition, there are a number of datasets of reaction times collected by CensusAtSchool available below. You can use these to compare your own reactions to. There are also demonstrations of the New Zealand and South Australia reaction timers used in their version of CensusAtSchool.
Sample datasets
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A random sample of 100 from CensusAtSchool Phase 4 2003/4, right, left hands .
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A random sample of 1000 from CensusAtSchool Phase 4 2003/4, right, left hands .
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Comparing right hand reaction from UK, New Zealand and South Australia .
You could also try your hand a the fun 'Sheep Dash ' from the BBC