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=== Human behavior === * The length of comments posted in Internet discussion forums follows a log-normal distribution.<ref name=":3">{{cite journal | last1 = Pawel | first1 = Sobkowicz | title = Lognormal distributions of user post lengths in Internet discussions β a consequence of the Weber-Fechner law? | journal = EPJ Data Science | year = 2013 | display-authors = etal}}</ref> * Users' dwell time on online articles (jokes, news etc.) follows a log-normal distribution.<ref>{{cite conference | last1 = Yin | first1 = Peifeng | last2 = Luo | first2 = Ping | last3 = Lee | first3 = Wang-Chien | last4 = Wang | first4 = Min | title = Silence is also evidence: interpreting dwell time for recommendation from psychological perspective | conference = ACM International Conference on KDD | year = 2013 | url = http://mldm.ict.ac.cn/platform/pweb/academicDetail.htm?id=16}}</ref> * The length of [[chess]] games tends to follow a log-normal distribution.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/2506/what-is-the-average-length-of-a-game-of-chess/4899#4899 | title = What is the average length of a game of chess? | website = chess.stackexchange.com | access-date = 14 April 2018}}</ref> * Onset durations of acoustic comparison stimuli that are matched to a standard stimulus follow a log-normal distribution.<ref name="Acoustic Stimuli Revisited 2016"/>
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