Re: [Heartlogic-dev] tentative plan

[William L. Jarrold]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 01:50 -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote:
> > If they are a virgin user, then any study they get will be a "formal
> > statistically well designed study."
> >
> > If they are a virgin user and if there are several "formal
> > statistically
> > well designed studies" (aka a "formal study") then the study in which
> > they
> > participate wil be randomly chosen.
> >
> > If they are a veteran user, then they *may* be offered an informal
> > study.
> > If they are offered a formal study, then their data will be
> > sequestered
> > apart from the virgin data.
> >
> > They *may* be offered a choice of studies.
>
> Actually we already have this because each rating has a timestamp.  So
> we can arbitrarily decide the number of ratings it takes for a virgin
> user to become a veteran user.  Or do you have something else in mind
> when you talk about virgin vs veteran?

yes, something else in mind, i think.

the idea is if you are a virgin, then you go through a little intro
just like in my dissertation, then you take the survey (maybe it would
be preferrable to have it time limited?) then you get a little debriefing.
then you are done.  at this point you are no longer a virgin....hrm, i 
suppose strictly speaking that if you read the intro and then quit or fill
out n items and then quit then you are no longer a virgin as well.

but this seems like a premature detail.   lets get the %*&(*&!! 
dissertation replication happening (this is me trying to spur myself -- 
ouch! (-:) and then we can obsess about the precise operational definition
of virgin, or perhaps levels of virginity.  (with all these reference to
"virgin" we are sure to get lots of hits now!!)

bill

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