Participants needed for study - could I steal 10 minutes of your time?

[schnuffichen]

Hey Montrealers!

I'm a student at McGill, majoring in Psychology, minoring in Linguistics. For this term I’m doing a project on... well, I wish I could tell you but that would ruin the purpose of my study. But I'll tell you later in case you're interested.

Comments

[sourdick]

Honestly, Batman is not in any critical danger. Kryptonite can kill Superman. Unlock the damn cage, he'll regain his powers, and can get Batman medical attention.

[schnuffichen]

Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly... while writing up the stories, I was hoping that semantics won't interfere too much. ;)

Thanks!

[sourdick]

I'm just busting you, I'll fill it out, but I'm on to your games. (shifty eyes)

Maybe come back after a week and tell us if you got the results you were looking for?

[schnuffichen]

Yep, I will :) And no worries, I figured as much.
Just saying that there's a huge Justice League fan here who had a hard time deciding between her desire to put in Batman references and making it easy enough for people to understand.

And that "Thanks" was not sarcastic or anything - I really mean it.

And yep, I will come back - data collection runs for 1.5 weeks from now, so I'll let you know later what I was looking for.

[schnuffichen]

You sure did! :D

Thanks a lot!

[eclips1st]

"the only exclusion criterion would be if you have knowledge about linguistics that goes beyond an introductory level"

damnit!

[eclips1st]

Also, this project is SO MUCH COOLER than what I had to do in that class!

[schnuffichen]

Awwwww - yeah, I imagine.

Luckily, we got a lot of freedom in how to design our projects. When I presented mine (with the stories and all), my prof rolled her eyes and mumbled something like "I should know better than letting undergrads make up their own questionnaires." ;)

Btw, are you a (former?) McGillian, too? Or Concordia? Or one of the Francophones?
/likes all LING people by default

[eclips1st]

McGill Alumni :)

Double-majored in Linguistics and English lit. and then got my B.ed. in TESL.

When I took the class, half the term was dedicated to group student presentations. While the subjects involved were usually interesting, it was not very motivating!

[sparklymoon]

I did a year of linguistics classes (it was my major when I first started uni, so that was like 2002-3) and I failed almost all my classes except Ling 200 (the intro class that was full year; now I think it's intro and chomsky?) Does that disqualify me.

[schnuffichen]

I don't want to sound mean but then you might be okay. ;)

They don't even teach the stuff here in 201 (and in 200 only this one prof does it) but only in higher level classes.

I just wanted to make sure that there are no Ling nerds who know about the study I'm trying to replicate... but it usually doesn't show up until the middle-300s.

Thanks! :)

[sparklymoon]

Done... and as below, questionning my reading comprehension.

[schnuffichen]

Awww, no worries - for most of these, there is no real wrong answer... just a "well, you could also mean XYZ instead..."
And even if you did not have that feeling, that's interesting, too! ;)

So thanks! :)

[refined_vintage]

Done.
(Now I'm questioning my reading comprehension in English. Damn it.)

[eveglass]

Yeah, I'm right there with you. And I just spent a year and a half working as an editor! *grin*

[schnuffichen]

Haha, yeah... that was on purpose... kinda. ;)
But I'm sure you did fine... for most of these (the confusing ones anyway), there's no right or wrong, so I'm pretty sure you did just fine.

Thanks a lot for your help!

[schnuffichen]

No worries... these were hard questions... or at least confusing ones, most of them. Normal people don't talk this way, so who cares? ;)

Thanks a lot for the help! :D