Does seeing the petals others took, lying on the ground, change what you take?

One flower is shared by every visitor to this site. It has twelve petals. Anyone can take a petal by clicking it. A taken petal is gone for everyone, and the flower regrows one petal every 45 minutes.

Each visit is assigned at random to one of two conditions. In A, a taken petal falls to the ground below the flower and stays there until its place on the flower regrows. In B, a taken petal simply disappears. Everyone sees the same flower, with the same petals missing.

For each visit: the condition, how many petals were on the flower on arrival, how many were taken, how long before the first was taken, and, if a single petal was left, whether it was taken.

Nothing that identifies you. No name, email address, IP address or location. Nothing is stored in your browser, and there is no advertising or third-party analytics. Visits are not linked to one another.

Both conditions show the gaps, so both tell visitors that others have taken petals. What the study measures is whether making that visible and physical, with the taken petals lying below the flower, changes what people do. The main measure is whether a visitor takes a petal at all, a decision made before their own petals reach the ground. In A, later takes are also shaped by the visitor's own fallen petals. Visitors are people who came to a designer's website, not a sample of anyone in particular. Because visits are not linked, a returning visitor may see the other condition, and each visit counts on its own.

Results are shown live on sheet 01.