Week 8: The End?

PIRE Summer 2020 might be coming to a close, but as my advisor tells me, nothing ever really ends. I am so happy with our progress this summer and I feel like I have learned so much more than I expected to. It has been 8 weeks of priceless experience that I will take...

Week 7: Thankful

Once again, I am ending the week with a nice pile of data from another successful run of the experiment. This time, we added a few more filters to make sure we were only running participants whose data could help answer our research question. No more false...

Week 6: Ones and Zeroes

For me, Week 6 looked a lot like a scene from a movie: rapid typing, mouse clicking, and a seemingly endless stream of 1’s and 0’s. We really dug into scoring the data from our first round of participants and I learned how to use all the cool mathematical...

Week 5: No Such Thing as Bad Data

As Week 5 comes to an end, I am happily sitting on a small pile of data from our first run of the experiment! After the excitement of hitting that Publish button and watching my experiment go live, I felt so mentally drained that when enough participants had completed...

Week 4: Final Steps

It’s the end of Week 4 and I feel really good about where we are! The experiment works well (fingers crossed) and we’re anticipating our first round of participants on Monday! It has been so great to watch our experiment progress from the basic building...