http://www.shockmd.com/2008/11/28/e-mail-behavior-explained/ A Neurostimulating Blog Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:45:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.shockmd.com/2008/11/28/e-mail-behavior-explained/comment-page-1/#comment-2195 Yosi Itzhak Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:04:02 +0000 http://www.shockmd.com/?p=1074#comment-2195 Nice... Nice…

]]> http://www.shockmd.com/2008/11/28/e-mail-behavior-explained/comment-page-1/#comment-1273 Dr Shock Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:01:13 +0000 http://www.shockmd.com/?p=1074#comment-1273 I like the way these scientists try to "catch" human behavior in formulas. It always amazes me how they think and reason. Like computerprogramming also a very creative kind of work. I like the way these scientists try to “catch” human behavior in formulas. It always amazes me how they think and reason. Like computerprogramming also a very creative kind of work.

]]> http://www.shockmd.com/2008/11/28/e-mail-behavior-explained/comment-page-1/#comment-1270 mudphudder Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:05:56 +0000 http://www.shockmd.com/?p=1074#comment-1270 I was looking at this paper earlier today and would add that another important contribution (Dr. Shock--I *know* you could have predicted that after work and before bed is when most people send emails even before reading this paper!) of this paper is in the more general finding that power laws of this form with heavy-tailed distributions in other social science scenarios where one would expect a poisson distribution may indicate the influence of cyclic human behavior (most importantly from this study, the sleep-wake cycle). I was looking at this paper earlier today and would add that another important contribution (Dr. Shock–I *know* you could have predicted that after work and before bed is when most people send emails even before reading this paper!) of this paper is in the more general finding that power laws of this form with heavy-tailed distributions in other social science scenarios where one would expect a poisson distribution may indicate the influence of cyclic human behavior (most importantly from this study, the sleep-wake cycle).

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