﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>Millisecond Forums » Millisecond Forums » Inquisit 4  » trial.elapsedtime not always 100% accurate?</title><generator>InstantForum 2017-1 Final</generator><description>Millisecond Forums</description><link>https://forums.millisecond.com/</link><webMaster>Millisecond Forums</webMaster><lastBuildDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:05:58 GMT</lastBuildDate><ttl>20</ttl><item><title>trial.elapsedtime not always 100% accurate?</title><link>https://forums.millisecond.com/Topic15789.aspx</link><description>Hey Inquisitmen,&lt;br/&gt;I noticed some behavior in my logfile where a trial was not branching properly to an Incorrect Feedback trial upon timeout. &amp;nbsp;Is there a more elegant way to do this? and does the trial.elapsedtime element not always work 100% accurately (if I have many branch/ontrialend/etc. elements in the trial)?&lt;div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here is my sample code that doesn't always return feedback&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;lt;trial patchtrial&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;/timeout 5000&lt;br/&gt;/branch = [if (trial.patchtrial.elapsedtime &amp;gt; 4999) trial.wrongfeedback]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;... (lots of other branch conditions a long ontrialend)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;lt;/trial&amp;gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:13:55 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>DCole9</dc:creator></item><item><title>RE: trial.elapsedtime not always 100% accurate?</title><link>https://forums.millisecond.com/Topic15791.aspx</link><description>Nice fix Dave. &amp;nbsp;I was trying to find a noresponse attribute--- this makes sense now that you mention it ;)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Thanks!&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:13:55 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>DCole9</dc:creator></item><item><title>RE: trial.elapsedtime not always 100% accurate?</title><link>https://forums.millisecond.com/Topic15790.aspx</link><description>/ branch = [if (trial.patchtrial.response == 0) ...]&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;If a trial times out (cf. the /timeout attribute), it must mean no (valid) response has been submitted.&lt;br/&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2015 07:57:58 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>