Luke Holland Giles Coren hosts a new gameshow with a simple premise: questions are propelled at a contestant until three consecutive answers prove incorrect, at which point they're replaced.
Formal power calculations suggested a minimum target of 248 responses to give 90% power at 0.05% significance between consecutive answers in the six-point rating scale used in the study.
The number of consecutive correct answers, or Longest Sequence of Consecutive Correct Answers, is another measure of WM functioning on the PASAT that appears to be a sensitive measure of functioning in both ADHD [ 27] and neurologically-impaired populations [ 28- 30].
At every three consecutive correct answers, the standard decreased in one unit of contrast (20 %), and to each error the same unit was added.
Your following question will be harder, and your next three consecutive correct answers will progress you to a harder level.
The Longest Sequence of Consecutive Correct Answers and Omission Error measures demonstrated ADHD versus NC differences on the PASAT.
In this context, 74 participants with more than 6 consecutive zero answers were removed from the analysis reducing the number of participants with FFT data to 384.
The Longest Sequence of Consecutive Correct Answers measures PASAT performance that is more sensitive to "chunking strategies" than the total number of correct responses.
This included the Letter-Number-Sequencing test of the Wechsler scales, PASAT omission errors and the longest sequence of consecutive correct answers on the PASAT.
The group of 74 individuals with more than 6 consecutive zero answers were significantly older (75.4 versus 71.0 years, p < 0.001), with lower mean MMSE scores (26.6 versus 28.0, p < 0.001) but not CFQ scores, and had a higher percentage of fallers (56.6% versus 40.7%, p = 0.011) but did not differ significantly by MFES score compared to those with less than 6 consecutive zero answers.
