Information about the Subject Pool
Next are links to volunteer for the pool. The first two are Excel
(Microsoft Office) and QuatroPro (Corel Office) spreadsheets, depending
on
which suite you use, and the third link is for a text file, if you
can't
use the first two links. The text file can be opened through
Notepad
or Wordpad, or through any word processor. For the spreadsheets, click
the appropriate link and
then click on "save to disk." Then wherever you saved it to, open
it,
fill out the requested information, then save it with the new
information
(don't save it to a new place, though - hit your SAVE button and not
your
SAVE AS button). At that point, you can send it to me via email
as
an attachment. My email is cech@louisiana.edu. Please put
the
following word in the SUBJECT portion of your email: subpool.
That
will route your email to a folder I reserve strictly for people signing
up
for the pool.
If you use the text file, you will probably not automatically see a box
asking do you want to save it. So, when the text appears on your
screen, do a save-as, and then you can go to that file, wherever you
saved it, fill it out, and send it to me as per above.
I will acknowledge any email sent to me (typically within 24
hours), so you'll
know it got to the right place.
One last point. Based on our experiences so far, we've noticed
that
people tend to make several mistakes when filling out these forms.
Here
are the most common:
1. Many people forget to
put
down how old they were on the first day of the semester. (Some
experiments
compare different age groups against one another, so we do need to keep
track
of age. In fact, double-check to make sure you've answered all
the
questions such as your name, gender, whether you wear glasses, etc.).
2. Many people don't use
the
section codes that we provide on these forms to identify your section.
Telling
us that you are in the Wednesday 1 pm class or Dr. so-and-so's class
isn't
enough, because several different sections often meet at the same time,
and
because people often teach more than one section. Do look at the
list
of codes and put down the number that corresponds precisely to your
class.
3. We need you to mark
at
least 5 different times (for example, Wednesday at 10 am, 11, 2, 3, and
4
pm) during which you can be assigned to experiments (and our computer
software
can only look at on-the-hour times; the computer randomly picks
people
for an experiment to match what times an experimenter is available;
the
experimenter doesn't hand-pick those people.)
4. In the spreadsheets,
please use the second column (the one that has "your response in this
column") for your answers, not the first or any other column.
5.
(I'm
bolding and highlighting this because it's so important!) When
you
are assigned to an experimenter, the computer sends you an email.
We
get a lot of bounced messages because people's mailboxes are full!
So,
please be sure to prevent your mailbox from filling up! You can
set
your computer email program at home to automatically delete messages
from
your online account, once they've been downloaded to your home
computer.
That will prevent the blocked email problem.
And that's it. Links appear below.
Excel spreadsheet to sign up for Subject
Pool
QuatroPro spreadsheet to sign up for
Subject
Pool
Text File to sign up for Subject Pool