Experiment Advisor Monitoring

[Vaaal]

Hi David, 
thank you for your advice, I got it.
What actually concerns me is this one, since my machine in the lab run 
exactly Windows XP: "The E-Prime Primary Clock is configured in a way that 
could cause timing inconsistencies on Windows XP. Contact PST Tech Support 
to configure the clock for more stabilized performance when using Windows 
XP with this finding". I contacted the PST tech support but still no reply. 
In the meantime, do you have any knowledge about that? Should I install a 
new OS in my lab machine? 

On Friday, 27 September 2013 15:49:28 UTC+1, McFarlane, David wrote:
>
> Valerio, 
>
> You can puzzle this out for yourself.  Try the following.  Open a 
> blank (Professional) experiment.  Run it.  Now look at the resulting 
> ExperimentAdvisorReport.xml.  See the Experiment Advisor Modules 
> table?  Does it include all the same items as before, even though the 
> experiment is completely blank? 
>
> Now disable some of the Experiment Advisor Modules.  E.g., back in 
> E-Studio, open the Experiment Object Properties, go to the Experiment 
> Advisor tab, and disable "Use of ClearAfter" and "Use of 
> Stretch".  Run this, open the resulting ExperimentAdvisorReport.xml, 
> and look at the Experiment Advisor Modules table.  Do you see that 
> "An object has its ClearAfter property set to Yes..." and "A visual 
> object has its Stretch property set to Yes..." have both disappeared? 
>
>  From this evidence would you conclude that the Experiment Advisor 
> Modules table tells you only what modules were enabled, and not what 
> problems it found?  Would you find this useful, because without this 
> information you could not tell whether the lack of a warning only 
> meant that that test was not run? 
>
> As usual, do not take my word for any of this, test it out for 
> yourself.  I presented my answer this way because I need to stress 
> that I do not have any inside knowledge about E-Prime, I simply 
> figure it out exactly as I outlined above. 
>
> Best regards, 
> ----- 
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>
> At 9/26/2013 05:01 PM Thursday, Vaaal wrote: 
> >Quick question about this interesting feature of e-prime. When I 
> >open the xml I can read several tables. Although it is clear for me 
> >the meaning of onset to onset stats, onset delay stats, load time 
> >stats and experiment advisor finding, the last table is a little bit 
> >more difficult for me to understand: Experiment Advisor Modules. 
> >I was checking this table when I notice that most of the "problem" 
> >pointed out by this table was actually not relevant for my design. For 
> example: 
> >  "A visual object has its Stretch property set to Yes, which can 
> > cause display timing anomalies. Instead of using Stretch, consider 
> > editing the source material to match the size and proportions you 
> > want to display during the experiment". 
> >But no visual object in my experiment has stretch set to Yes. Or, again: 
> >"An object has its ClearAfter property set to Yes. ClearAfter is a 
> >deprecated property." 
> > 
> >This is not true for any of my object. 
> >So, how reliable is this table? 
> >Or maybe it just point out to POSSIBLE/LIKELY problems, without 
> >actually telling that you are incurring in one of those? 
> > 
> >Thank you very much for any clarification. 
> >Valerio 
>
>

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