Timing Paranoia

[R.W. (Bob) Erickson]

One of the tools currently being used in the cognitive sciences is the 
measurement of reaction time to stimulus.
It turns out that the length of time it takes to given situations is a 
credible proxy for how difficult the discrimination is to make.
Imagine a paranoia  involving  mysterious e-mail delays and the length 
of time it takes to catagorize