Balanced drawing from 2 columns

[ben robinson]

whatever procedure is running "SlideWord" is being called from the same list
that has [ColumnX] in it, right?  let's call this your TrialList.
i propose instead of having [ColumnX] populated sometimes from [ColumnA] and
sometimes from [ColumnB], have it populated sometimes from [ColumnWord] in
NestedListA and sometimes from [ColumnWord] in NestedListB.  that means that
your two nested lists only need a single column, titled ColumnWord.  put
half your words in NestedListA under its ColumnWord, and the other half of
your words in NestedListB under its ColumnWord.
in your TrialList, you'll need two rows.  first row: NestedListA, running
your SlideWordProcedure, and under ColumnX: [ColumnWord].
on the second row of your TrialList: NestedListB, running
SlideWordProcedure, under ColumnX: [ColumnWord].

does that make any sense?

when the first row of TrialList runs the SlideWordProcedure, it will pull a
word from NestedListA.  when the second row of TrialList runs the
SlideWordProcedure, it will pull a word from NestedListB.

ben

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:24 AM, PinkSunflower <carolinakt at googlemail.com>
wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> on a slide ("SlideWord") I refer to a certain column [ColumnX] in a
> superior list, which again refers to one of two columns [ColumnA],
> [ColumnB] in another list. I know the Inline to draw randomly from
> either ColumnA or ColumnB. But I would like that EPrime draws in 50%
> of the cases from ColumnA and in the other 50% of the cases from
> ColumnB.
>
> My Design:
> I have 20 Sentences and in every sentence one word is missing. In 50%
> of the cases the "SlideWord" shows the right missing word (from
> ColumnA) and in the other 50% the Slide shows the BufferItems, i.e. a
> wrong word (from ColumnB).
>
> Does anybody know the Inline for this?
> I'd be very happy.
>
> Thank you very much,
> CAROLINA
> >
>

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