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pminimax

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    I wouldn't worry about one datapoint out of 35,000 messing up the stats.

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    Author here. I added fields so you can specify your first language (relevant link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction... ) and colorblindness. FAQ: * I ca…

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    Comment #41431085

    The mask is 200 ms long, which is a bit on the long side compared to most psychophysics experiments. I can try to crank it up to 300 ms, but beyond that I think it'll start feeling…

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    The site records local time of day when you hit submit so I can track whether this has any effect. I have 7,000 answers thus far, I should have enough by tomorrow to determine whet…

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    That's fun! I bet people would tend to nudge the threshold toward the middle of the scale. Or you could do a sorting interface, etc.

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    Comment #41430989

    You can fork this here: https://github.com/patrickmineault/ismyblue

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    People have done this. See, e.g. Brouwer and Heeger (2009), Decoding and Reconstructing Color from Responses in Human Visual Cortex.

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    Yes, you can absolutely get better at discriminating different colors, orientations, etc. though unfortunately improvements tend to be highly specific to the stimulus. There's a gr…

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    The order is randomized. Hit reset and you'll get a different sequence. The sequence is also adaptive (not a binary search---it's hitting specific points of the tail of a sigmoid i…

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    It is common practice in psychometrics to use two levels in a forced choice and model responses as a logistic regression, which is what's done here. Adding an N/A option turns the …

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    Author here, yes, it tests a mix of your monitor calibration and colour naming. The two types of inferences you can make with this are: 1. If two people take the test with the same…

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    Author here, it started out with: ``` Can you help me make a website called is my blue your blue? I want to make a website that is in vue.js that allows one to determine the bounda…

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