The report
Recomputed from scratch every time this page loads, using every trial submitted by every participant so far. See the methodology for how each number is derived.
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Coverage so far
The central result
Correlation between the overall simplicity order and each pattern's number of subsymmetries:
The original paper found ρ = .808 for subsymmetries and only ρ = .198 for block count — the whole point of the paper was that subsymmetries explain simplicity much better than either symmetry or block count alone.
Pairwise agreement between experiments
Spearman's ρ between each pair of rank orders (paper's Table 3).
Full pattern table
Sorted by overall simplicity rank (1 = simplest). Hover column headers for definitions.
| Pattern | Overall | Subsym. | Blocks | Search | Subjective | Memorization | Confusion | Verbal |
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→ An alternative view on this data, comparing subsymmetry count against a different published measure of pattern order.