I actually just met the creator of e-prime (!!!) a couple weeks ago and should have asked him this! <br><br>Dr. Schneider just told me that he just wanted to create a software program that made making experiments easier and it just happened from there :) (he used to be an engineer).<br>
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Curious minds want to know. So, I went ahead and posted this question to PST Web Support (as I keep saying, they really do generously take any and all questions there, and they did reply within 2 days). Laura McCarthy replied, "E-Prime refers to the Experimenter's Prime (best) development studio for the implementation of computerized behavioral research such as reaction time, detection, and learning type paradigms." She does not have a source citation for this, and neither do I -- I might have seen this explained in one of the early published papers introducing E-Prime, or in some of the early documentation for the beta versions that we started using back in 1998 or 1999. I might go back sometime and look further, but this should do for now.<br>
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At 5/23/2011 02:20 PM Monday, in the thread "E-DataAid crashing" (<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/e-prime/browse_thread/thread/2351146132d184ea" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/e-prime/browse_thread/thread/2351146132d184ea</a> ), David McFarlane wrote:<br>
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At 5/23/2011 11:55 AM Monday, Michiel Spape wrote:<br>
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As a side note, does anyone else think e-Prime should, in this i-Age, change the name? I'm personally of the opinion that Me-Prime sounds better (although perhaps a bit too late, as YouTube, MySpace and YouGov have all lost that glossiness... Gee-Prime and /i/-Prime will probably end up to be rather costly).<br>
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As I recall, the name "E-Prime" was meant to evoke "Experiment-Prime", i.e., "Experiment'", somewhat in the fashion of Isaac Newton's notation for derivatives; and so "E-Prime" was meant to evoke a system that advances experiments to the next level. But I don't know where I read that, and I can't find a citation now.<br>
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I was never fond of this affectation (just like I was never fond of PST calling experiment programs "paradigms", or calling VBA/E-Basic source code "script", etc.). But I understand the name, and in that sense I suppose E-Prime makes more sense than <any other letter>-Prime.<br>
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