<story><title>The gunfighter&apos;s dilemma</title><url>http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8493000/8493203.stm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>v3rt</author><text>Apparently, it&apos;s incorrect that the winning strategy is to move second - while the drawing motion take ~20ms less when reacting, it takes ~200ms to react in the first place, leaving you quite dead.
See &lt;a href=&quot;http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2010/02/why_does_the_gunslinger_who_draws_first_always_get_shot.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2010/02/why_does_th...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Did the BBC misinterpret the data, or did the scienceblogs article make a mistake?</text></comment>
<story><title>The gunfighter&apos;s dilemma</title><url>http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8493000/8493203.stm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>InclinedPlane</author><text>There are existing studies which show that people react faster when startled than when not. There&apos;s a nifty little online test to check your own response times: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mathsisfun.com/games/reaction-time.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.mathsisfun.com/games/reaction-time.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know this is the first test to show that startle response extends beyond reaction time, it&apos;s an interesting piece of data. It&apos;s worth noting that it&apos;s possible to force yourself into a state of mind similar to being startled, which may very well eliminate the advantage to &quot;shooting&quot; second.</text></comment>