In Heroes and Hero Worship (1841), Carlyle identified the talents, skills, and physical characteristics of men who rose to power. Galton's Hereditary Genius (1869) examined leadership qualities in the families of powerful men.
More mature users (those over 51 years of age) took an average of 47 minutes and 40 words before pressing send on their replies. Men jump on their emails slightly faster than women, taking 24 minutes to respond compared to 28 minutes. Both sent an average of about 30 words per email. People replied from their phones faster than from their tablets (28 minutes compared to 57 minutes.) Email responses from tablets faster were than on desktops which took an average of 62 minutes.
My incoming e-mail seems to take a long time to arrive. I may be talking on the phone and the other person will say in the course of the converesation I just clicked send on an e-mail to you.. Depending on time of day and day of week, it may not arrive for 10, 20, 30 minutes or more.I frequently send myself self e-mails from the same computer that will be receiving them, using the same Outlook account as will be receiving them. Tonight, Sunday, at 6:55 p.m., I sent myself an e-mail.There were no attachments and the e-mail size was 23 KB. It literally took one hour to arrive in my Inbox.I know that the general level of e-mail traffic at a given time can affect how long it takes an e-mail to travel to its destination.epending on time of day and day of week, it may not arrive for 10, 20, 30 minutes or more. I frequently send myself self e-mails from the same computer that will be receiving them, using the same Outlook account as will be receiving them. Tonight, Sunday, at 6:55 p.m., I sent myself an e-mail.