For example, other work [ 121] indicated that standard low vision care followed by additional teaching sessions enabling extra tuition, correction of poor skills, additional practice with more difficult tasks and answering patients' questions over a 4 week period resulted in improvements in vision function (NEI-VFQ) and reading speed (Pepper VRST) compared with a group who had only standard care.
In the laboratory, the experimenter can ensure that all participants are part of the population of interest (e.g., native speakers of U.S. English), control the environmental distractions, influence the rate of completion ("don't rush"), verify that participants understand the task, and answer any questions that may arise.
27 28 One example of the seven questions on job stress was "I have to deal with a lot of tasks," and the answer was chosen from "(1) yes, (2) rather yes (3) rather no, (4) no".
Each subject was required to perform a visual search task and a question-and-answer (Q&A) task.
The users' task completion performance and answers on pre/post-evaluation questionnaires demonstrated not only the ease in learning and usefulness of PerMMA, but also their attitudes toward assistance from advanced technology like PerMMA.
Developers use the Amazon Mechanical Turk web services API to submit tasks to the Amazon Mechanical Turk web site, approve completed tasks, and incorporate the answers into their software applications.
"That time he took that 100-yard trip in the Jaguar and the green fascists took him to task and his answer was: 'Pauline had just had her hair done.' Every working-class geezer knew where he was coming from.
Participants solved two tasks in each domain; they were asked to evaluate their performance on each task, and they answered an inventory addressed to perceived competence in each of these five domains.
She asked herself, "Can these women both financially support their families and be caregivers to their sick children?" It seemed like an impossible task, and the answer for many was no.
A small pilot study (n = 15) was undertaken in advance of the main study to check that interviewees understood the task and were answering the questions as expected.
