How can I implement pseudo-random selection from a list?

Tobias tobias.fw at gmail.com
Fri Jul 22 13:50:49 UTC 2011


okay, if i enter "pseudo-random", I find it. Let's discuss it there
and close this branch.

On 22 Jul., 15:40, Tobias <tobias... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I tried antering "pseudorandom" but there weren't any helpful
> discussions. And no recent ones, especially.
>
> Didn't look at the PST forum
>
> On 22 Jul., 15:23, David McFarlane <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote:
>
> > Tobias,
>
> > This has been discussed at length time and time again both in this
> > Group and on the PST Forum (including this very week).  Did you try
> > doing a search for this topic on the discussion groups?
>
> > -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
>
> > At 7/22/2011 09:08 AM Friday, you wrote:
>
> > >Dear all,
>
> > >again a rather elementary issue stroke me when I was testing a new
> > >paradigm. When I have four target types, it often happens that one of
> > >them is used 10 times in a row. Let's not discuss how random E-Primes
> > >"random" is (I don't really trust it!). But: How can I implement a
> > >pseudorandom selection from a list?
>
> > >Let's say I want E-Prime to choose randomly trials from a list, but
> > >one of the four target types must not be repeated more than twice in a
> > >row.
>
> > >I didn't find anything like that in the options, maybe some code
> > >helps. Has anyone of you ever tried to do such a thing?
>
> > >Looking forward to reading your answers!
>
> > >Best,
> > >Tobias

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