beginners questions

[David McFarlane]

At 1/18/2010 12:26 PM Monday, Michiel Spape wrote:
>one wonders what you’re using E-Prime for
 if 
>it’d be questionnaires and such, I’d say go for 
>an entirely different programme (unless you’re 
>like me and find it cool to do things the difficult way?).

<Jumping on the bandwagon...>

Yeah, I hate it when folks try to press E-Prime 
into service for simple questionnaires.  EP 
simply is not made for that, its sole purpose is 
for tasks that require tight control and 
measurement of timing, otherwise folks make 
things too difficult for themselves.  Around here 
we have found MediaLab from Empirisoft very 
useful for all sorts of questionnaires.  Or if 
you can get your hands on any decent web 
programmer you could do questionnaires very 
handily in any web browser using HTML, CSS, and 
JavaScript (with a bit of ActiveX in IE if you 
want automatic storage of data to disk).  Heck, 
much of the Web these days is basically 
questionnaires, take a look around, so if folks 
can do all that for web apps without E-Prime, why 
not for simple psychology questionnaires?

Just my US$.02.

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
"When all is said and told, the 'naturalness' 
with which we use our native tongues boils down 
to the ease with which we can use them for making 
statements the nonsense of which is not 
obvious."  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, "On the 
foolishness of 'natural language programming'" 
(http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html)

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