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We have set up our online study such that our 8 experimental conditions are block-randomized by participant number, i.e. the first 8 participant numbers are assigned to one of the 8 conditions, so are the next 8, etc.; the intention was to ensure all 8 conditions get an equal number of participants.
Though the code works as intended, the block randomization has failed because the majority of people who visit our experiment page, never click 'Start'; Despite that, they are assigned a participant number (as far as I can tell), so we end up with many participant numbers that never did the study. This has resulted in our assignment of conditions being, in practice, fully random, so some conditions have received far more participants than others.
For future studies, do you see a way by which we can design our inquisit experiment code to achieve what we wanted here?
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