bypassing an attribute

Matt Paffel mpaffel at gmail.com
Thu Jul 8 17:04:27 UTC 2010


Thanks for the tip Liwenna, I'll look into it.

On Jul 8, 2:01 am, liwenna <liwe... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> You might try something using different 'slidestates'. A slide can
> contain several 'states' which are basically several versions of the
> slide... When looking at a slide in e-studio you see in the bottom
> left corner that it is actually a kind of 'tab'. You can add
> slidestates by clicking one of the icons in the top menu. This way you
> could have one state that contains 5 values and one slide that
> contains 10 and call them... 'five' and 'ten' (or whatever you
> please). In your triallist you would make a separate variable that
> would contain the name of the slidestate to be used (call it for
> instance: nvalues) and for each trial (level) specify a slidestatename
> in this variable (i.e. five in level1 and ten in level2). Back to the
> slide: in the preferences you can specify which slidestate of the
> slide should be shown; set it to show [nvalues] which tells e-prime
> that the name of the slidestate to be used must be subtracted from the
> variable nvalues for each showing of the slidestate. This way: for a 5
> value's trial value 6 to 10 might be determined by e-prime but as
> there is no slide shown that 'calls on them' they will be 'bypassed'.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Best,
>
> AW
>
> On Jul 1, 7:37 pm, Matt Paffel <mpaf... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > question for anyone who may know. I'm trying to design an experiment
> > where each trial may contain a different number of values. for
> > example; one trial may include values of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 while
> > another trial may contain values 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.
> > the obvious problem is that the first trial has half as many
> > attributes as the second. is there a way to make e-prime recognize
> > this?- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

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