Training Week 2011 Question Box

I can't tell you folks how much I appreciate all the new, clean templates for types of questions.  My life just got a lot easier. 

However, there's at least one type that might prove useful but which seems to be missing.  Specifically, in one of the studies I'm hoping to design this week, I'll need a "slider" (measuring immediate happiness).  My reason for using this question type is that I'll be measuring happiness at two different points in the experiment (before and after a gambling game), and I was thinking that this format might help minimize anchoring effects.

Do we have any templates for this type of question? (Or a suggestion for why I might not need one?)

Steve

Firefox 6.0 just went public today. This version breaks compatibility with httpfox, but it can be fixed by editing the .xpi file that contains the add-on. Here is a link of a pre-edited version I created that is tested, working in Firefox 6.0.

http://db.tt/NChyn4z

I overheard that there is some work-in-progress towards having R scripts for working with PI data outside of SAS and SPSS. Is there a wiki page or repo available to access/contribute to this development?

Sorry for having so many posts, but I think mine didn't go through from yesterday. A few weeks ago I found a bug with the handling of the 'pid' cookie. I was wondering if there is a place to report bugs/issues like this one to save other people from having to figure out such weird instances (description below):

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I wanted to add something to the wiki or suggest an update for the xGetCookie function on PI. 

Specifically, I spent several hours debugging an issue that turned out to do with how the 'tid' cookie is being called using xGetCookie. Specifically, I had another cookie that happened to be called 'correctid' and since xGetCookie scans all cookies for the name 'tid' it was returning the value from 'correctid' rather than the actual 'tid' (for which I'm not sure what the path is). Changing 'correctid' to 'corrid' immediately fixed the bug.

Anyway, it turns out this is a known bug with xGetCookie, for which they have released an update (namely xCookie, in second link):

http://cross-browser.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=504

http://cross-browser.com/x/lib/view.php?s=xCookie

I'm sure this is the first time this has ever come up, but in case anyone else loses hours to it, this is why.

I wrote a version of the dropdown nag that will tell the participant which questions are unanswered, focus on the first unanswered question, and simplify adjusting the code to your specific form name (you only need to name the form once at the top, rather than for each individual question).

Here is the version for dropdown. Would it be useful to do these for the other formats?

http://db.tt/w4CzfZG

Demo:

http://people.virginia.edu/~dd2es/dropdown-nag-adv.htm

Demo: http://people.virginia.edu/~dd2es/video/video.html

Code: http://db.tt/K7Qqg1c

This is written for the current jwplayer version 4.1 being used on PI. New versions will use different code, so I created this for 4.1 to ensure compatibility.

I was wondering if we could create a page with information listing all (or most) of the already existing IAT tasks with templates, sample testing links, and/or contact information for the people who have created them.

I often get an idea for an IAT that I would like to run, for example, a implicit political self-identification IAT (Rep-Dem, Me-Not Me) but I have no idea if someone else has already created that task or not. In this case, for instance, I think someone said that Carlee may have created a similar task at one point but I have no idea if she did or not, where i can find the files, or what it looked like. Ideally, I think it would be great for us to have a listing of the existing IAT tasks with templates, the name of the person who created them, and a sample link to view each IAT (maybe from the showfiles.jsp link). That way, someone who was thinking about creating a new IAT or wanting to use a less familar IAT could go to the wiki page,  take the IAT to see if it was what they wanted, then look over the template, and then contact the creator if they had any issues.

David,

Excellent contributions.  Yes, we can update to the new version of the cookie function as this one must be quite old.  Thanks.  Let me begin by putting this on the pi site which is only for training currently.

function xGetCookie(name) { var value=null, search=name+"="; if (document.cookie.length > 0) { var offset = document.cookie.indexOf(search); if (offset != -1) { offset += search.length; var end = document.cookie.indexOf(";", offset); if (end == -1) end = document.cookie.length; value = unescape(document.cookie.substring(offset, end)); } } return value; }