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demographics are saved in a different file

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vpillaud	vpillaud posted 10 Years Ago HOT Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 26, Visits: 93	Hi, I've added several personal questions at the end of my experiment (demographics such as sex or age, several open-ended questions, radio-button questions....). The answers to those items are saved in a different file; meaning that I have a raw file where the task's performance is saved and another one where the demos are saved. Ive used a surveypage to display the demographics so it may be due to this. I've tried to integrate the variables' names as a column in the description of the data file to be saved (e.g. sex), as well as referring to variables' names by adding _response and _latency (i.e. sex_response; sex_latency) but this didn't solve anything. It just created empty columns... Can somebody please indicate me a way to solve this out ?
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Dave	Dave posted 10 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 104K	That's the intended behavior for <survey> elements: They'll output data to a separate, differently formatted file. If you want to have everything in a single data file, do not use <survey> elements to run your <surveypage>s. Instead run them via <block> elements' /trials attributes.
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vpillaud	vpillaud posted 10 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 26, Visits: 93	y but then it'll only display one question by screen right ? don't want them to browse ten screens for ten quick questions..
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Dave	Dave posted 10 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 104K	No, that's incorrect. A <surveypage> is a special type of <trial>. You can put as many questions on it as you want and then do <surveypage a> / questions = [1=...; 10=...;] ... </surveypage> <surveypage b> / questions = [1=...; 10=...;] ... </surveypage> <block someblock> / trials = [1=a; 2=b; ...] ... </block>
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vpillaud	vpillaud posted 10 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 26, Visits: 93	hm i may be mistaken but when I do <block someblock> / trials = [1=a; 2=b; ...] ... </block> It displays one trial per screen, meaning that if trial a is sex and trial b is age, itll display them separately. I dont see any ways to display several trials on a same page using the block function, this is why I came up with using a surveypage. Am I missing smthg here ?
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Dave	Dave posted 10 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 104K	a and b are <surveypage>s. Each can contain as many questions as you need / want.
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vpillaud	vpillaud posted 10 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 26, Visits: 93	yes, so then I have to use a surveypage to present several questions on a same page; there's no way to display several trials within the same block on a same page right ?
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Dave	Dave posted 10 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 104K	You set up as many <surveypage>s as you need. Each may contain as many questions as you need / want. Then run those pages via the <block>'s /trials attribute just like any other trial.
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vpillaud	vpillaud posted 10 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 26, Visits: 93	got it. Thx Dave.
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