Reflex Hammer

This is a Taylor hammer; we considered the Queen Square and Babinski, but went with Taylor primarily because of its iconic status and widespread use.

Testing response time

It is important to know the accuracy of your tools. For example, knowing that the minimum time you can record is 8ms.

Test on the metro

Technique is enhanced by training.

Jendrassik Maneuver

It's important, also, to make sure that we each try out different roles. Eventually, we would specialize for efficiency.

Subject 1

Spidere on the reflex hammer.

Subject 2

With an excellent t-shirt.

Subject 3

Eccoglyph on stopwatch, while a capitol guide looks on.

Subject 4

Kprime, you may have guessed, was photographer.

Subject 5

Our final subject for the day.

Take some notes

Good record-keeping is crucial to a good experiment. We recorded gender, age, and response time for three taps to each knee. Sadly, we did not get a large enough sample for significance. It does appear, though, that the measured time is dominated by the reaction of the timekeeper, since reactions are so fast. I suspect that this is why the medical community merely uses "normal", "hyperreactive" and "hyporeactive" (normal, overly fast reaction, or overly slow reaction), to reduce the variation and try to maintain some commonality in description.