Estimated task difficulty survey
In this short survey, I ask you 4 questions.  

First, I would like you to estimate how long it would take you to answer a question using just Google.  

Then, I ask you to actually time yourself, and enter the ACTUAL amount of time it took to do the search task.  

If you don't think you can DO the task, enter 0 hours as the value.  I'll record that as an "impossible to answer" time estimate.  Or, if it would just take you too long to answer it, just leave the time estimate blank (just don't put in any numbers).  I'll understand that you just don't have the time to actually go and do that task.  

Thanks.
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1A.  How long would it take you to find a picture (any picture will do) of the current Princess of Norway?  
Estimate the amount of time it would take you to answer this
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1B.  How long did it ACTUALLY take you to find a picture of the current Princess of Norway?
Enter the amount of time it took you do find her picture.  
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2A.  How long would it take you to find data describing the unemployment rate of Santa Clara County (California) for the past 10 years?  (You're looking for a table or a chart containing the data.)
Estimate the amount of time it would take you to do answer this.  
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2B.  How long did it ACTUALLY take you to find data describing the unemployment rate of Santa Clara County (California) for the past 10 years?  
Enter the amount of time it took you to find the data set.  
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3A.  How long would it take you to find a picture of Neil Armstrong standing on the moon that was published in The Guardian newspaper sometime in the past 30 years?  
Estimate the amount of time it would take you to answer this.
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3B.  How long did it ACTUALLY take you to find a picture of Neil Armstrong standing on the moon that was published in The Guardian newspaper sometime in the past 30 years?  
Enter the amount of time it took you to find the picture of Armstrong in the Guardian.
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4A. How long would it take you to figure out how many times the name "Lothario" appears in the book "Moby Dick"?
Estimate the amount of time it would take you to answer this.  
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4B.  How long did it ACTUALLY it take you to figure out how many times the name  "Lothario" appears in the book "Moby Dick"?
Enter the amount of time it took you to get the actual number.  
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4C.  And how many times DOES the name "Lothario" appear in "Moby Dick"?
Roughly how many times each day do you do an online search?
Using either Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Wolfram Alpha, or any search engine?
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