Shuffle datamatrix and update correct response

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• sebastiaan

  August 2017

  Hi,

  I don't fully understand what you're trying to do, but here's an idea to get you started: Instead of specifying the words directly, you specify variable names, like so:

  var1                     var2
  [sourceword0]            [targetword0]
  [sourceword1]            [targetword1]
  [sourceword2]            [targetword2]
  

  And you keep the pairing constant: [sourceword1] is always paired with [targetword1], etc. This makes it easy to determine which pairings are correct during the test phase, right? Because you can just hard-code that.

  Then, to nevertheless randomize which words are paired for each participant, you randomly assign actual words to the sourceword[x] and targetword[x] variables. For example like so:

  import random
  
  source_words = ['dog', 'cat', 'bunny']
  target_words = ['tree', 'house', 'bottle']
  random.shuffle(source_words)
  random.shuffle(target_words)
  
  for i, (source_word, target_word) in enumerate(zip(source_words, target_words)):
      var.set('sourceword%d' % i, source_word)
      var.set('targetword%d' % i, target_word)
  

  Do you see what I mean? That should make life easier, right? And you don't need to do anything fancy with DataMatrix.

  Cheers,
  Sebastiaan

  
  
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• aswv

  August 2017

  Dear Sebastiaan,

  In this thread i asked for a solution, which is the reason why I am using data matrix.

  But maybe I can read take the values from the data matrix to a list and manipulate the results as above.