The assignment of warning sounds varied over participants (e.g., for half of the participants a ringing sound indicated the vowel condition and a smashing sound the word stress condition, whereas for the other half of the participants the opposite assignment was chosen).
Attempts to assign weights to sound symbolic cues have been limited by a methodology that has relied largely on forced contrast judgments, which do not allow systematic assignment of weights on the sound symbolic cues.
Schneider et al. (2009) operationalized the use of the Klimisch reliability categories by developing an evaluative tool with uniform, objective category criteria enabling scientifically sound evaluations and assignment of relative merit weighting to toxicological studies and data.
Indeed, to build sound final groups, we limited the assignment of a sequence to a reference group if the E-value was less than a threshold of 10-10 [Additional File 3].
A randomized inclusion and assignment of the scenarios may have given the design a more sound character but there was no pre-selection in the sequence we used for participants and scenarios.
Furthermore, the theoretical treatment of IETS can be used to assist in assignment of the experimental peaks, with a reasonable accuracy, indicating that the computational treatment of IETS is sound.
In our sound labelling study, soundnails were shuffled and randomly grouped into 32 assignments of 10 to 11 sounds each, noted as Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) by AMT.
Standards for assignment of the "p.g.a".
It's a tough assignment, of course.
These involved the random assignment of animals to treatment groups; blinded assessment of how the animals fared; a record of animals removed from the results, and a calculation to show that the study had enough animals to be statistically sound.
