Require response for openended question or minimum display time


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Dear all,


I'm afraid I have to bother you with yet another beginner's question, but I couldn't find a solution in the Inquisit help.


Question: How can I make sure that participants give an answer to an openended question:
Is there a command so that they can only continue to the next page when they have entered something (or a minimum number of characters) in response to an openended question?


Or, alternatively, can I use a minimum presentation time for the question, such that clicking on the "Next" button is only possible after, say, 20s ?


Thanks in advance!


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Question: How can I make sure that participants give an answer to an openended question:
Is there a command so that they can only continue to the next page when they have entered something (or a minimum number of characters) in response to an openended question?


A setup along these lines should do the trick:


<openended myopenended>
[...]
/ validresponse = (anyresponse)
/ required = true
</openended>


~Dave


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Thanks, this is what I was looking for!


Just for the future, is there also a possibility to display the question for at least xxx seconds ?


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Just for the future, is there also a possibility to display the question for at least xxx seconds ?


No straightforward way to do this, I believe. The '/ responsetime' attribute might be useful here though:


<openended myopenended>
[...]
/ validresponse = (anyresponse)
/ responsetime = 2000
</openended>


Set up like this, Inquisit would only accept answers given after 2000 ms into the trial.


Hope this helps,


~Dave


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Thank you for the support, Dave!


The validresponse attribute cannot define a minimum number of characters, can it?


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For that you'll have to look into using expressions via the '/ isvalidresponse' attribute or -- more general -- the '/ ontrialbegin', '/ ontrialend', etc. event attributes. For example, you could use the 'length()' function (see string functions section in the functions documentation) to check if the typed response has a minimum length...


Or you could use Regular Expressions (RegEx) via the '/ mask' attribute. See this thread for some hints: http://www.millisecond.com/forums/Topic4270.aspx.


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HI!

I have a question about open-ended questions in Inquisit:

I want them to at least work on the question for 2 minutes; but the buttonlabel "Click here to continue" is now present from the start.
This is kind of confusing, since they can't actually continue before those 2 minutes. 

Any suggestions?



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