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Subject:RE: Is there a term for this? From:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> To:Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>, "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:28:49 -0500
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Neilson
>
> My wife the quality engineer, who just tried the red-white-green-brown
> Stroop test and got the shivers from it, says that the right way to
> handle
> a list such as Joe mentions is to divide it into several separate
> lists,
> each no more than five items long. The separation can be
> categorization,
> or as simple as breaking the list into sets of five with spacing.
Going in a different direction - if you ever find yourself in front
of a paper version of the Stroop test OR are doing it on a small-ish
screen, turn it upside down. I'll bet you achieve one of the higher
scores... until an irate test monitor intervenes. :-)
-k
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