Nested List Not Following Selection Rules

[gorgeous yayuan Geng]

Dear Noam,

I have seen your excel profile and I have some questions about your
procedure. How did you random the


2014-08-06 22:08 GMT+08:00 Noam Schneck <noam.schneck at gmail.com>:

> Hi Sally,
>
> Thank you for the response.  Sorry for the e-prime version elitism.  I
> can't downgrade because I don't have the lower version and would need to
> reprogram the entire task if I did. I am attaching here an edat file
> extracted into an excel spreadsheet. If you look at columns DB-DK you
> will see the words that were selected for each trial.  Columns DD and DE
>  show the alternating blocks.  What this file shows is that for the first
> six blocks  there are no repetitions and then in blocks 7 and 8 (rows
> 153-200 on the excel spreadsheet) there are repetitions (highlighted in
> pink). The problem is that these repetitions occur within one block. I
> can't figure out why that is happening since I set the wordlist to random.
> I don't mind if the repetitions happen across blocks but I can't have them
> within blocks.
>
> Let me know if you have any further thoughts,
> noam
>
>
> On Monday, August 4, 2014 11:29:48 PM UTC-4, sally wrote:
>
>> Hi,Noam, I am trying to download the attachemnt you posted but it seems
>> my version is lower than yours, so I cann't open yout profile to see the
>> details. I suppose the four words cannot be the same and you may seperate
>> the 85 words into 2 different groups: positive and negative. then randomly
>> select 2 words from each group. I hope you can find a lower eprime version
>> so I can see the details.
>>
>> Hope everything goes well,
>>
>> Sally
>>
>>
>> 2014-08-02 0:23 GMT+08:00 Noam Schneck <noam.s... at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I have a task in which a slide object is used to present four words
>>> (Positive1, Positive2, Negative1, Negative2).  Each word is selected
>>> randomly from a list that contains 85 words in total.  This list "Wordlist"
>>> is nested into the master list.  I am trying to set the wordlist so that no
>>> words will repeat within a block (24 runs) but that they can repeat across
>>> blocks.  I set the parameters of the wordlist to random selection with
>>> replacement after reset.  I set the reset at 24 samples.
>>>
>>> HOWEVER....E-prime seems to have a different plan.  When I run a test on
>>> the task I find that the program goes through the first 3 blocks (72
>>> samples) without ever repeating a single word and than in the fourth block
>>> it begins repeating words within the block.  I cannot figure out why this
>>> is happening and I have attached the experiment file. Please help!
>>>
>>> Noam
>>>
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