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		qb45 on April 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Click on a few dots and our program will guess you... Interesting idea, but if this was the case I'm sure they wouldn't bother writing javascript which ajaxes timestapms of your clicks to their server.

ahoge on April 17, 2013 [–]

Why not? Placebos also look like the real thing, don't they?

Anyhow, in cases like this it's always nice to save all the data you can get. The correlation you'd like to demonstrate might not exist at all. However, if there are many parameters, you might be able to find something else.

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