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

[David McFarlane]

Tobias,

If you widen your search to simply "random", you might find even more 
useful discussion.

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


At 7/22/2011 09:50 AM Friday, you wrote:
>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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