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Hi,

Here is a description of the experiment I am trying to program.  I want to show a relatively complicated stimulus: two candidate biographies side by side.  I then want the subject to make a few judgments about the candidates.  First, I want them to pick the one they'd like to vote for.  Then, I'd like to get a "feeling thermometer" on each candidate and perhaps another question or two about each candidate separately.

I'd like to go through multiple sets of candidates, and these side-by-side biographies are what are manipulated (what information is included, how strong the candidate is, etc.)

So, I was able to get it working using the exp/blocks/trials for the side-by-side comparison and candidate choice.  But I couldn't figure out how to ask follow up questions within a trial.

Do I use branching?  Can I have survey questions like a textbox within a trial?   Should I try to re-implement everything as survey?

Here is some of the code:

<block data>
/ preinstructions = (ready)
/ trials = [1-8 = random(name, strongfemale, strongmale, strongboth)]
</block>

<trial name>
/ validresponse = (voteAreminder, voteBreminder)
/ stimulusframes = [1=erasescreen, femalenameL, malenameR,voteAreminder, voteBreminder ]
</trial>

I'd like to know how to ask a few more questions after the subject picks a candidate by clicking on voteAreminder or voteBreminder.

Cheers & Thanks!

Hi Michael,

in Inquisit (when using the normal exp/block/trial approach) a single trial collects a single response. So, in order to have follow up questions to an answer given in a specific trial, your best choice would probably be to use branching to a block that bundles your desired follow up measures / questions (each as a single trial). Hm, that came out sounding quite complicated, actually. Sorry. But it's not really that hard! So, in short:

> Do I use branching?
Yes.

> Can I have survey questions like a textbox within a trial?
Yes.

> Should I try to re-implement everything as survey?
No, not necessarily. This decision also depends on what type of dependent variables are important for your study.

Hopefully, that information get's you a little further.

Best,
~Dave