Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 - Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Various
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The results are given in Table VI., where the numerals in the headings indicate the localities and changes of stimulation, in accordance with the preceding scheme, and _'S'_, _'E'_ and _'L'_ designate the number of judgments of _shorter_, _equal_ and _longer_ respectively. It will be observed that in several cases a _CT_ was introduced in one class which was different from the _CT_ used in the other classes with the same subject. This was not entirely arbitrary. It was found with subject _W_, for example, that the use of _CT_ = 2.0 in (3) produced judgments of shorter almost entirely in both types. Therefore a _CT_ was found, by trial, which produced a diversity of judgments. The comparison of the different classes is not so obvious under these conditions as it otherwise would be, but is still possible. The comparison gives results which at first appear quite irregular. These are shown in Table VII. below, where the headings (1)--(3), etc., indicate the classes compared, and in the lines beneath them '+' indicates that the interval under consideration is estimated as relatively greater (more overestimated or less underestimated) in the second of the two classes than in the first,--indicating the opposite effect. Results for the first interval are given in the line denoted 'first,' and for the second interval in the line denoted 'second.' Thus, the plus sign under (1)--(3) in the first line for subject _P_ indicates that the variation _RLL_ caused the first interval to be overestimated to a greater extent than did the variation 133. |
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