The objective of this study was to compare the speed and accuracy of wire sorting with color and numbered coded wires. Twelve inexperienced female subjects performed a wire sorting task six times—three times with color coded wire and three times with number coded wire. The task was similar to that performed in the makeup of wire harnesses for electronic equipment. Wire sorting with color coded wire was found to be twice as fast as sorting with number coded wire. There were no statistically significant differences between the two conditions in sorting accuracy or in rate of learning the sorting task.
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