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RaphiePS on Feb 10, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: A ‘frighteningly ambitious’ way to improve email

I tried it out by sending him an email.

Interestingly enough, the average response time for a yes/no question is by far the longest (5 days vs 3 days for a long email).

Shouldn't responding to simple yes/no be much faster than reading a long message?

borisvvz on Feb 10, 2013 [–]

Still in closed beta so the stats are based on all my test mails. As I keep a bunch of them in Yes/No to play with sorting this screws up the current stats. Should be more reliable when actively used…

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