[Heartlogic-dev] comments on story rating thing

[William L. Jarrold]

Joshua,

I am sorta starting to kinda comprehened what you are doing.  A few 
suggestions...

Instead of saying...

Story

Jack and Jill went up the hill

to fetch a pale of water

Understood As

Jack wants something about a pale of water for himself.

....say....

Story

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pale of water

Understood As

Jack wants something about a pale of water for himself.

......

Also don't say "Most experts agree."  Say most "humans" (too nerdy or
nerdy chic??) or "of our research participants" or "of our
volunteers."

Also don't say...

The statistics above represent the combined ratings of everyone who
has rated this appraisal.  Following standard APA notation, N is the
number of samples, M is the average on a scale of -1.0 (highly
unbelievable) to 1.0 (highly believable), and SD is the standard
deviation.

...first of all no need to say this is APA standard notation.  second,
do it however we do it for "Vienna is wet." and friends (i.e. the
rumination story).

...also don't say...

Understood As

Jill is indifferent about a pale of water for herself.

...say....

After reading this story HAL thinks that:

        Jill is indifferent about a pale of water for herself.

How correct is HAL?

...and have not believability ratings but correctness ratings, a la...

        Completely Incorrect
        Slighly Incorrect
        So So
        Slightly Correct
        Completely Correct

[except presented horizontally]

...ALSO THIS SEEMS LIKE AN IMPORTANT SUGGESTIONS this kinda makes more
sense if the participant saw them grouped meaningfully.  E.g. like
so...

        Jill is indifferent about a pale of water for herself.  1 2 3 4 5
        Jack is indifferent about a pale of water for herself.  1 2 3 4 5
        Jill thinks that Jack is indifferent about a pale of water for herself. 
1 2 3 4 5
        Jack thinks that Jill is indifferent about a pale of water for herself. 
1 2 3 4 5

....Whuddyasay to that?

One more suggestion...

For the rumination Vienna is wet study, the type in boxes where we ask
them to comment, can you pretty please with sugar on top put it
*below* the radio buttons?  Also ...

Do you have any comments about the truth of this statement

...would be better as this....

Feel free to add any comments about the believability of this
statement or about your rating right here.

...and maybe just "any comments" after the first 3 items.

See this would be another great place for a wiki.

Bill