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. 2014 Jun 6;47(2):309–327. doi: 10.3758/s13428-014-0471-1

Table 1.

Top: Differences between intended and actual presentation (positive = longer duration than intended) on a Dell OptiPlex 760 desktop computer for intended durations of 50, 150, and 500 ms. Bottom: Differences between actual and measured response times (positive = overestimation) on a Dell OptiPlex 760 desktop for actual response times of 150, 300, and 600 ms

Flash HTML5
MSIE Firefox Chrome MSIE Firefox Chrome
Presentation Time
50 ms
  Mean (SD) +15.2 (7.9) +14.6 (8.5) +16.3 (7.9) +36.5 (1.7) +22.3 (9.6) +4.3 (9.5)
  Range +3, +36 +4, +25 –13, +26 +20, +37 +1, +35 –12, +25
150 ms
  Mean (SD) +6.1 (8.3) +9.4 (8.2) +3.0 (8.4) +25.2 (8.3) +4.9 (14.5) –1.9 (10.2)
  Range –1, +16 0, +19 –5, +29 +17, +33 –15, +35 –16, +19
500 ms
  Mean (SD) +0.6 (1.7) –0.5 (1.7) +1.1 (7.0) +17.1 (1.9) –0.2 (5.4) +7.0 (8.4)
  Range 0, +17 –1, +16 –16, +17 +16, +34 –18, +32 –15, +18
Response Time
150 ms
  Mean (SD) +26.7 (7.8) +32.9 (7.3) +28.8 (8.0) +33.6 (7.5) +45.0 (7.6) +38.7 (12.4)
  Range +6, +38 +22, +83 +21, +52 +21, +53 +22, +56 +7, +67
300 ms
  Mean (SD) +27.3 (8.1) +35.3 (8.2) +29.6 (7.4) +33.2 (8.4) +42.8 (6.7) +43.4 (12.9)
  Range +12, +44 +19, +50 +12, +44 +12, +44 +20, +64 +8, +69
600 ms
  Mean (SD) +28.1 (8.0) +36.7 (5.1) +28.5 (7.9) +34.7 (8.7) +43.9 (9.8) +41.8 (16.4)
  Range +9, +41 +27, +48 +9, +41 +24, +56 +6, +70 +10, +71

MSIE, Microsoft Internet Explorer