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31 Jul 2013, 5:10 pm

I went ahead and completed it. It took over an hour to complete.


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31 Jul 2013, 5:24 pm

nominalist wrote:
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It's also not a great test for autistic pedants who will pick up on subtle changes of meaning. And there were questions in there like "I have watched television once in the last three months" and "I have travelled north of the Arctic circle" which demanded "strongly agree/disagree" answers.


Those are control questions. They are designed to make sure that the person is being honest or consistent.

That was my point- there was already one control, so the large amount of repeated questions seemed excessive to me.



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31 Jul 2013, 6:16 pm

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That was my point- there was already one control, so the large amount of repeated questions seemed excessive to me.


A few anomalous answers to control questions don't tell you anything. For example, maybe the person really has traveled north of the Artic circle (especially since this is an international site, there are probably people on this site from Northern Canada, or Scandanavia, or some other northern region) or really hasn't watched TV in the past three months (not everyone owns a TV, and if you don't own a TV, it wouldn't be hard to go three months without watching one). But the probability that the person really has done all of those unusual things is pretty low.

Same with the inconsistency-catching questions. In some cases, trying to answer a question that is hard to apply to yourself (such as a preference question for two options you like equally) will result in seemingly inconsistent responses. In addition, a few questions may be accidentally answered inaccurately, because the person misread the question, was not paying attention, or had forgotten a relevant detail. So many people may have a few inconsistencies. But if you include enough consistency checks, you can distinguish normal mild inconsistency from the kind of inconsistency that would make the test invalid.



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31 Jul 2013, 9:16 pm

nominalist wrote:
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It's also not a great test for autistic pedants who will pick up on subtle changes of meaning. And there were questions in there like "I have watched television once in the last three months" and "I have travelled north of the Arctic circle" which demanded "strongly agree/disagree" answers.


Those are control questions. They are designed to make sure that the person is being honest or consistent.


Could / Would anyone with Aspergers be dishonest? Doubely so from a self selcting group of Aspgergers people who want to help in a study?

It does seem like a waist of time. And I realy wish they'd vet the questions with some padantic before releasing them into the wild. Badly worded questions get my ire.



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31 Jul 2013, 9:25 pm

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It's also not a great test for autistic pedants who will pick up on subtle changes of meaning. And there were questions in there like "I have watched television once in the last three months".


This is a perfect example of a stupid question that will get stupid answers.

I own a television, but I get no reception. I watch DvD's only at home.
But I visited a friend over the weekend and while she made dinner, i sort of watch whatever was on her TV while talking to her.

Now, did I watch TV in the last three months? I want the OP to answer this one.



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03 Oct 2013, 7:39 pm

The company that produces the reports wants to do them all in one shot, so I have to wait until I have enough participants to do it. I only need about 10 more!



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03 Oct 2013, 8:05 pm

BeeDub57 wrote:
The company that produces the reports wants to do them all in one shot, so I have to wait until I have enough participants to do it. I only need about 10 more!


okay ty for info, good luck with finishing your recruitment!


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05 Oct 2013, 11:39 pm

I appreciate it, as well as everyone who takes the survey.