Experiment Advisor Monitoring

[David McFarlane]

Valerio,

Please clarify.  Do you get that message in the "Experiment Advisor 
Findings" table, or only in the "Experiment Advisor Modules" table.

-- dkm


At 9/27/2013 11:24 AM Friday, Vaaal wrote:
>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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