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Not necessarily. It might be that search robots crawling your launch page increased the subject count. Where did you host your experiment and how did you advertise it?

Today's computers have multiple network interfaces (LAN, W-LAN, etc.). 0.0.0.0 indicates that the first interface (computer.ipaddress.1) on a given computer (e.g. LAN card) was not assigned an IP address. computer.ipaddress.2 might have returned something else.

Not directly. You would have to apply much of the same strategies as in https://www.millisecond.com/support/docs/v3/html/howto/interopsurveys.htm, i.e., use query parameters.

Not sure, but might be related to (1). Also not sure what exactly you consider the "ending page".

Regards,

~Dave

Hi Dave,



thank you for the fast reply!



I hosted the experiment on http://research.millisecond.com/aowbonn/handball.web
and advertised in forums and facebook groups/walls that contain my population of interest. I started advertising on tuesday.

But is it right, that when a person visits the launch page and does not
start the experiment, the subject count is increased by one?

Are search robots crawling http://research.millisecond.com/aowbonn/handball.web ?



Sorry for being unprecise, I specified a custom finish page with a
counter using the webscript registration wizard. As I informed my
participants that they can cancel the experiment with strg + q, I think
this increased also my stat counter...



Regards,

Erik

Might be that a bunch of people clicked the link to your launch page, gave it a quick look and then dismissed participation for whatever reason (see below). Perhaps there's a better way to acquire participants / increase return ratio than Facebook?

Yes, as subject numbers are generated on the server side. You can test this for yourself by visiting your launch page, locating the subject number in its source code, reloading the launch page and locating the (new) subject number.

It would seem so. Just google "site:research.millisecond.com" (no quotes). However, I'm not entirely sure if this will do anything to the subject count.

Yes. Aborting the experiment via CTRL+Q will invoke the finish page, thus increasing the stat counter.

Regards,

~Dave

thanks again!

I think it might be the necessity to download a ".exe" for the experiment that potentially scares many wary participants.

Do you have any reommendations for designing the starting page in order to emphasize the trusthfulness of the download/ experiment?

Regards,

Erik

Well, unfortunately the magic pieces of code that make up Inquisit have to be delivered to the client computers somehow...:-)

For starters include your / your advisor's contact info, institutional affiliation, etc. for your potential participants so they can visit your site, email questions, learn more about the research before taking part, etc. Note that there is a growing body of literature dealing with both theoretical and practical aspects (such as maximizing participation / minimizing dropouts) of online research. You might start with "Dimensions of Internet Science" by Reips & Bosnjak (2001).

Regards,

~Dave

thanks for the advice!

i just tried to incorporate computer.ipaddress.2, but get an error message  "/columns: 'computer.ipaddress.2' is not a valid setting."

<data >
 / columns = [date, time, computer.ipaddress.1,subject, blocknum, trialnum, blockcode, trialcode, pretrialpause, posttrialpause, windowcenter,
 trialduration, trialtimeout, blocktimeout, response, correct, latency, inwindow, stimulusnumber, stimulusitem, stimulusvpos, stimulushpos, stimulusonset,
 stimulusnumber, stimulusitem, computer.availablememory, computer.cpuspeed, display.width, display.height, build, computer.ipaddress.2 ]
</data>

Do you have any suggestions?

Regards,

Erik

Apparently Inquisit will throw this error when the computer does not actually have a second device which could have an IP address assigned to it. Hmm, my personal opinion is that the script should run regardless and just record nothing for the non-existent interface. I'll file a bug for this.

~Dave

Hi Dave,

in the actual Inquisit version 4.0.3 this error still occurs:

'computer.ipaddress.2' is not a valid setting.

Is there any solution possible?

Thanks!

Erik

Erik,

computer.ipaddress.2 will only ever be valid *if* there is a 2nd active NIC device that has an IP address assigned.