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Jeremy
Keymaster

Dear Casey,

Some things you can do:

– if you don’t need the starting and ending time of your Header trials, add .noTrialLog() after the closing parenthesis of your Header(...) (before or after .log(...), it shouldn’t matter)

– more generally, if you don’t need the starting and ending time of some trial, add .noTrialLog() after the closing parenthesis of its corresponding newTrial(...) command

– if you are not interested in the participants’ answers to the practice trials, consider remove the .log(...) commands on the elements included in those trials (Key elements, TextInput elements, etc.)

– for your Textnput elements, you may want to consider using .log("final") so as to only get the “Final” line, and not the “first” and “validate” ones

– you may or may not want to delete some of the .log commands on your Key elements, depending on how crucial it is for response time calculations to have lines reporting those keypresses in your results file

Most importantly, make sure to take one or several testruns after editing your project to verify the integrity of the results files it produces, and apply the analyses you would normally apply so you’re sure you’re not missing any crucial bit of information

Jeremy