Dear Sebastian,
Many thanks for your very clear document about testing. Yes, I do realise
that UCL needs to get the pretests sorted. We *ought* to be able to get
stimuli prepared by 6 March. Now we have the extension, I'm assuming that
we will be using the pretests to test for any significant differences
between syllable classes with sonorant onsets, as originally outlined in my
document of 8 Feb. I understand that we need to produce some
"filler"/distractor sentences as well, as described in Richard's minutes.
What I'm not sure about is how many sentences we need altogether: can you
help? 24 basic sentences we *do* want to test -- + x? fillers... I
*think* we thought we'd stick with a between-groups design after all, but
your opinion is important here!
Jill
>
>the Monday passed without the proposed decisions, but nevertheless things
>are clearer now (knowing that we have the extension). Here is my view on
>the current test planning/preparing/running situation:
>
>a) the extension of the project gives us time till approximatly the middle
>of May. That means we should aim for finishing testing end of April or
>the during the first week of May at the latest.
>
>b) We will go for the factorial, so we have to finish the pre-test in time
>to be able to use the results for the preparation of the factorial.
>
>c) The factorial experiment for the testing of the interaction of the
>manipulations of the three sites will require up to 80 subjects, that
>means we need 4 weeks at least.
>
>d) The preparation of the stimuli might take about 2 weeks. That sums
>up to six weeks that we have to count for running the factorial
>experiment. The preparation should be done before the end of March
>because Paul and Rachael won't get paid by the grant afterwards
>(is that right?).
>
>e) From now on we have about 12 weeks altogether. Take two at the end for
>analysing and writing. Take another 6 for the factorial. That leaves us 4
>weeks for the pretest. The York pretest should not need that long, so we
>may delay the York-test till the UCL and the Cambridge pre-tests are
>ready. This would allow us to run the test together and also gives us
>some time to pilot the possibility for running the York test with
>cognitive load instead of noise.
>
>f) What is the status of the UCL stimuli preparation? Is more discussion
>re material for the pretest needed?
>
>g) I think we should start the pretest on Monday the 6th of March, test
>for two weeks and have one week for analysis and discussion about the
>consequences of the results for the factorial test.
>Jill, Rachael: do you think you can prepare the stimuli in that time?
>Earlier? I don't think that Cambridge could be ready for a pretest before
>that, but it might be good to start the UCL-test as soon as possible,
>because it's likely to require more subjects than the other two pretest.
>Tell us if you need any help, advice, to talk, etc...
>
>
>Please sent me your comments. Do you think the timing is realistic?
>Do you think I forgot something that needs to be taken into account?
>Any wishes, suggestions?
>
>
> Sebastian
>
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