Controlled Reaction

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Ellen Glasgow

Backyard Brains has a science experiment you can play around with to measure your own reaction times, plus handouts for you teachers out there. According to a summary on their Experiment: How Fast Your Brain Reacts to Stimuli page, “the average reaction time for humans is 0.25 seconds to a visual stimulus, 0.17 for an audio stimulus, and 0.15 seconds for a touch stimulus.”

About the author

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 – November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for her novel In This Our Life. She published 20 novels, as well as short stories, to critical acclaim. A lifelong Virginian, Glasgow portrayed the changing world of the contemporary South in a realistic manner, differing from the idealistic escapism that characterized Southern literature after Reconstruction.