Monday, April 25, 2016

I have begun asking people to answer the quiz that I made. My procedure is to go up to other students that I will be able to easily see again, often during a free grab block, and asking them “Do you mind answering a few questions to help me with my STEM project?” Then, I would open up the color selector on google docs (it is what you get when you select custom after going to the drop down menu to change a color) and saying “What color do you most closely associate with…?” If they seemed confused by this question or were having a hard time picking a color for the letter/number, I would say “Just pick the first color that pops into your head.” I had them pick colors for two numbers, four letters, and one note played on google guitar. When playing the note, I would cover up the screen because the string turns blue when it is played and I didn’t want that to influence the participant’s choice. Once the participant selected the color, I wrote down the code for the number on a piece of paper. One problem I faced was that I would accidentally copy the number wrong so it would not produce a color when I typed it back into the box. I was not sure whether to re-ask the person, throw away their data completely, throw away their data for that type of synesthesia, or try to just use data from the other letters/numbers to determine if they have synesthesia. After consideration, I have decided to just use the data from the other numbers and letters. Now I need to gather information from more people and then move on to the second round after March break.

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