Feasibility levels (easy, difficult, impossible) and response times were compared for these clusters of preferred and non-preferred orientations in separate three-way ANOVAs.
For each item, respondents rated the perceived difficulty of a given task on a four-category Likert scale (i.e. very easy, easy, difficult and very difficult).
Key barriers could take one of three positions, making each target easy, difficult, or blocked (shown here as shades of gray).
The optional answers were: "very easy", "rather easy", "neither easy nor difficult", "rather difficult" and "very difficult".
The second component of the map similarly orders terms based on a connotation of "calming-exciting" or "easy-difficult" (vertical axis in Figure 1A C).
The most popular sites for easy-difficult patterns are www.mccall.com, www.butterick.com, or you could look on e-bay.
I would describe the experience of writing from Spurgeon's point of view as easy, then difficult, then easy again, then difficult again.
Categories for questions 1 8: 1 very easy, 2 somewhat easy, 3 neither easy nor difficult, 4 somewhat difficult, 5 very difficult.
Using pseudo-random strategies, we created two types of switching conditions (easy-to-difficult; difficult-to-easy) and relevant repeating conditions.
How easy or difficult was it to acquire the patented research tools? 1) Very easy 2) Easy 3) Neither easy nor difficult 4) Difficult 5) Very difficult Q5.
