Tag: experiment

We’re trying as hard as we can to be alone

Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been conducting a little observational study on Chicago’s “L” trains. I wanted to know what, exactly, people do on the trains, because they’re certainly not talking to me. But seriously, I...

/ August 14, 2013

The day I saw real people

There are seven billion people on this planet. We see only the tiniest fraction of them from day to day, and interact with even fewer. That was the premise of a small observational study I...

/ August 5, 2013