Response accuracy unreliable because {SHIFT} logged as response

[HFAC]

David, thanks for the response. I thought of this solution as well, but I 
cannot use caps lock because the + and = would not work properly as they 
are on the same key. 

On Monday, April 15, 2013 2:14:53 PM UTC-4, McFarlane, David wrote:
>
> If all your letter responses are upper-case, why not just use Caps 
> Lock so that subjects do not have to press Shift? 
>
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> At 4/12/2013 02:11 PM Friday, HFAC wrote: 
> >Hello all, 
> > 
> >Thank you for your advice in advance. To introduce myself, I use 
> >EPrime to develop my experiments because I have no experience coding 
> >(a shame I know), so please keep that in mind when responding. So 
> >far, I have only used the built in functions of EPrime. 
> > 
> >My Experiment: I have developed an experiment where participants see 
> >a stimuli and participants are expected to answer using a series of 
> >(capital) X, I, V, or -, +, and =. (For example: X=V+I) The 
> >participants have 2 minutes to come up with correct answer and they 
> >may try as many answers as they would like until they find the 
> >correct one. I have set the experiment up where if the participant 
> >enters an answer and it is incorrect they cannot continue but if 
> >they enter the correct response they will receive feedback that they 
> >are correct and can continue to the next puzzle. 
> > 
> >My Problem: I cannot get Eprime to recognize the correct response 
> >(for example: X=V+I) because when participants capitalize their 
> >responses EPrime records {SHIFT}. I have tried making the correct 
> >response {SHIFT}X{=}{SHIFT}V{+}{SHIFT}I. This method is not reliable 
> >because participants hit shift a variable number of times (when 
> >making mistakes, etc.) so there is no way for me to predict the 
> >number of shifts in their answer. 
> > 
> >Please let me know if you need additional information in order to help 
> me. 
>
>

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