Answerometer

[Danko Sipka]

In the anonymous ftp archive:

ftp.amu.edu.pl/pub/Serbo-Croat alias:
math.amu.edu.pl/pub/Serbo-Croat

in the file ameter.zip

I made available Answerometer, a simple program to measure
if a decision task has been completed correctly and what
was reaction time.

It is given as a compiled DOS program (am.exe) and
C++ source code (am.cpp).

The program takes two ascii files (to be compiled by the
experimenter): intro.txt (one screen instruction how
to complete a task), and quest.txt with the lines of the
following structure:

001yQuestion you want to ask

The first three characters are reserved for the question
code, the fourth for the correct answer, and the rest
of it is the question which appears on the screen.

The output of the program (result.txt) is a list of lines
of the following structure:

subject's code|question code|correct or not|reaction time

for example:

joeshmoe|001|1|123

where 1 in the third column stands for correct, and 0 for
incorrect answer, and the time in the fourth column is given
in hundredths of second.

This table can then be imported into any spreadsheet and/or
statistical program (like SPSS, SAS, etc.) to analyze the
results.

Polish examples for intro.txt and quest.txt are provided.

Danko Sipka