LING 333 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3.2: Statistical Power, Likert Scale
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Judgement tasks non numerical tasks designed to detect qualitative differences between conditions, but in the process they sacrifice some of the information about the size of the difference numerical tasks. Designed to provide information about the size of difference, but in the process they may lose power to detect small differences between conditions. In a forced-choice (fc) task, participants are presented with two (or more) sentences, and instructed to choose the sentence that is most (or least) acceptable. Fc is explicitly designed to qualitatively compare two conditions and directly answer the qualitative question. ** major benefits: fc tasks are relatively easy to deploy, since each trial in an. Weaknesses: only indirectly provide information about the size of difference between condition in the form of proportion of responses. 2. 2 yes-no task participants are presented with one sentence at a time and instructed to judge the sentence as a member of one of two categories: acceptable/yes or un acceptable/no.
