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dimitra_94
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Hi Jeremy,

I have a very similar question to the one posed here, but I cannot seem to make it work unfortunately. So I am creating a rating study with 22 photos and 10 questions. Each photo appears ten times with each question so I have 220 items in total. I also have 4 practice items that appear with five of the questions so another 20 items in the beginning. I am using the pick function in order to add breaks and attention checks in between, as well as randomise the items, but some items come up two or three times in a row, something that I want to avoid – I do not wish to have any duplicates.

I have tried replicating the code you provided above (+ uploaded the .js file to js_includes) but with no success so far.

My sequence looks like this:

practice = randomizeNoMoreThan(startsWith("practice_trials"), 1);
critical = randomizeNoMoreThan(startsWith("experimental_trials"), 1);

PennController.Sequence("welcome",
                        "demographics",
                        "instruction",
                        "exampleinstruction",
                        pick(practice, 20),
                        "end_practice",
                        pick(critical, 55),
                        "attentionCheck1",
                        pick(critical, 55),
                        "break",
                        pick(critical, 55),
                        "attentionCheck2",
                        pick(critical, 55),
                       "send", "final")

and then within my trials I have this format (VP is the column with the coding of the photos that I do not want to see more than once in a row):

PennController.Template(
    PennController.GetTable("List_1.csv")
        .filter("trial_type", "practice")
                         ,
                         variable => ["practice_trials_row.VP"

 PennController.Template(
    PennController.GetTable("List_1.csv")
        .filter("trial_type", "experimental")
                         ,
                         variable => ["experimental_trials_row.VP"

Is there a way to fix this? (Link to the experiment: https://korpling.german.hu-berlin.de/ibexexps/tsiapoud/Fotodatenbank_Pretest_List_1/experiment.html)

Thanks in advance!
Dimitra

  • This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by dimitra_94.
  • This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by dimitra_94.