Comparing The Time Difference in Sorting Fifty-Two Cards by Color Versus Suit: an experiment done for a psychology class

Running Head: THE CARD SORT Comparing The Time Difference in Sorting Fifty-Two Cards by Color Versus Suit. The purpose of this experiment was to determine the difference in the amount of time that it took a subject to separate a deck of fifty-two cards into two distinct piles based on their color (black and red), compared to separating a deck of fifty-two cards into four distinct piles based on their suit (spades, clubs, hearts, and …

…conditions. The mean duration time in condition B (sort by suit) was higher than that of condition A (sort by color). We reject our null hypothesis that sorting by color takes no more or less time than sorting by suit because it is evident from this study that there is a significant increase in the amount of time that it takes to sort the cards by suit as opposed to by color. Figure 1: Programmed shuffle