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Comment #41437279
I wouldn't worry about one datapoint out of 35,000 messing up the stats.
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Comment #41436636
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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Comment #41431070
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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Comment #41431019
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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Comment #41430977
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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Comment #41430967
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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Comment #41430944
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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Comment #41430920
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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Comment #41430882
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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Comment #41430820
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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