Twenty male subjects were shown the operation of a rotor-pursuit apparatus under two states of three different task conditions; rotor speed, target shape, and hand used. Pre and post-performance estimates of task difficulty were obtained. The results indicated that subjects had trouble in estimating the relative affects of as few as three different task variables on performance.
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