Age Of Conan Gold

I’m clearly faster at determining an unarmed white guy. I’m not sure that 20 ms is sufficient for that sample to say that I’m quicker to pull the trigger on armed black guys than white guys.

My question is to formatting. I felt the way they led into pictures, and the backgrounds used led to quicker responses for certain scenes. I’d be curious to see how that skews results.

I’m pretty sure though the two times I got it wrong was the reverse of my scores. I let an armed black guy shoot me, and I shot an unarmed white guy.

This numbers make sense to me. Armed times are the fastest because guns are relatively easy to recognize (at least in this test). Times for Black Armed and White Armed are essentially the same.

Unarmed times are considerably longer across the board because it took longer to process what the target was holding. My thought process probably went like this:
Find target
Find target’s hand
Is it a gun? If yes, shoot.
If no, what is it?

I only holstered after categorically figuring out what the target was holding, so deciding it wasn’t a gun wasn’t enough, I needed to know what it was (wallet, phone, etc).

Times for Black Unarmed is longer than White Unarmed for that reason. Dark hands and dark objects made it slightly more difficult to recognize the held object.

My scores:
Average reaction time:
Black Armed:784.92ms
Black Unarmed:793ms
White Armed:757.52ms
White Unarmed:822.48ms

Definitely faster to differentiate for Black than White.