Showing posts with label influence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label influence. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Influence of red and blue colors

I recently came across this article. I am sure you have come across reports about similar studies elsewhere too.

After I read this, I suddenly had this big urge to validate the claims made by the study. As you may remember, I changed the color of my bedroom to Red from Blue last April.

Since these were the two colors mentioned in the research, I wanted to see if I had become any less creative due to this color change from blue to red. Not that I am alluding myself to be very creative just because I blog a lot, but here are some numbers for you to munch (Please note that I am excluding April 2008 from these calculations since it is the month when the color change took place):

Time between May 2008 and January 2009 = 9 months. This is the time when my room was Red.
A similar time frame when the walls were blue would be July 2007 till March 2008, the same 9 months.

# of posts between May 2008 and January 2009: 63
# of posts between July 2007 and March 2008: 145 (Even if you discount the 20 posts of my travelogues in this period, the count is still a healthy 125).

# of posts between May 2008 and January 2009 that attracted comments: 28
# of posts between July 2007 and March 2008 that attracted comments: 63

# of Random Observation posts between May 2008 and January 2009: 8
# of Random Observation posts between July 2007 and March 2008: 24


Based on this data, it is very evident that from the time my bedroom turned Red, I have not been the same blogger that I was when the color of my bedroom was Blue.