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Now you would normally use the participant number to determine the condition: participant 0 get red, horizontal, | Now you would normally use the participant number to determine the condition: participant 0 get red, horizontal, | ||
participant 1 get green horizontal, participant | participant 1 get green horizontal, participant 2 get red, vertical, | ||
participant | participant 3 get green vertical and participant 4 gets red, horizontal again. (in real life the number of conditions can be much larger of course) | ||
This nice system is ruined by the fact that we have no consecutive participant numbers. Using the random participant | This nice system is ruined by the fact that we have no consecutive participant numbers. Using the random participant numbers from the panel system | ||
may work if the number of | may work if the number of participants is very large and the number of conditions is very small, but otherwise our counterbalancing is ruined. | ||
Use the participant counter to solve this. Just give the participant counter a nice unique name for | Use the participant counter to solve this. Just give the participant counter a nice unique name for your experiment and each time you call it, it will | ||
give you a new counter value. It has some additional features as well. | give you a new counter value. It has some additional features as well. | ||