Verbal Time Estimation in Cluttering

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Re: organization

From: Emily Garnett
Date: 22 Apr 2010
Time: 16:54:31 -0500
Remote Name: 173.81.117.198

Comments

Hi, thanks for the comments. The actual verbalizations were pretty immediate (a second or so) after the estimated verbalizations, so while some aspects of STM could come into play, I don't think it had much of an effect. Additionally, I had the subjects rate how well what they ACTUALLY said (compared to what they though they'd say) on a scale of 1-5. I only used utterances rated at 4 or 5 in my calculations, that is, answers that mostly matched. So, for example, if I asked a subject, "Which do you prefer, cats or dogs, and why?" and the subject ended up saying something completely different when they spoke their answer aloud than what they had thought they'd say, they typically rated that a 1 or 2, and that particular question would not have been analyzed. We then simply moved on through the list of question. We did training initially as well, in the same format as the experimental procedure. Additionally, my instructions were to "Think about what you would say, THEN press and hold the mouse button down for the exact time you think it would take you to say it. Then release the mouse button and say the same thing aloud." So, they were not to be pressing the mouse button during formulation time, i.e. think about what you would say, THEN press and hold the mouse button down. A neat analysis (which I did not do) would be to see if there were more answers rated at 1, 2, and 3 for the clutterers than the controls, in an attempt to see if clutterers "messed up" more often than the controls, which could point to some formulation difficulties as well. I hope that answers your question! Thanks again!


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