I'm doing some music cognition research for my PhD. Care to take a survey?

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Poparad

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I've just finished putting together my very first music cognition study for my doctoral studies at Kent State University. I'm interested in how people hear chords and the phenomenon of how we find the "roots" of chords when listening.

If you've got about 20-30 minutes, you'll be presented with a series of chords played on a piano and you'll be asked to choose what sounds like the most important note to your ears. There's no time limit on it, so if you need to pause and come back later, as long as your browser window stays open and doesn't refresh, you can resume at any point.

Unfortunately, the survey is only available to people residing in the USA. Due to the complexity of international privacy laws, I had to keep it simple to get the survey approved by the ethics board so I can do human experimentation! (mad scientist laugh).

http://poparad.com/research/test1/test1.php
 
Would be happy to help.

Alas, I am living outside the US, and would almost certainly be dismissed as an outlier for such a survey, given my multiple brain surgeries and radiation therapy.
 
Tralfaz said:
Dang... that was a lot of chords!
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And that's after I cut it way down! But I agree, after I got it finished and up and running and did a test run-through, it was probably still too long. I plan on doing more surveys in the future with more complex harmonies but I'm definitely going to scale back the number of examples.
 
It wouldn't let me past the first page because I have some high frequency hearing loss in my left ear. I lied about my hearing and moved on and then started to worry if I'd be tainting the results due to my dishonesty on the first page. I was enjoying it until the guilt caught up to me. I was half way through and couldn't finish. Damn if guilt didn't ruin yet another good time for me.
 
B Valley said:
It wouldn't let me past the first page because I have some high frequency hearing loss in my left ear. I lied about my hearing and moved on and then started to worry if I'd be tainting the results due to my dishonesty on the first page. I was enjoying it until the guilt caught up to me. I was half way through and couldn't finish. Damn if guilt didn't ruin yet another good time for me.
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I have a similar sort of hearing issue, and the form didn't seem to mind. I'm not sure why it would matter.

The form problem, I think, is that the submit seems to be remain grayed out until the up/down select buttons on all the numerical fields have been touched. If you type in a value (for example, your age) instead of clicking the up button until the field shows your age, the javascript does not see the field as having a valid entry and you cannot proceed.
 
B Valley said:
It wouldn't let me past the first page because I have some high frequency hearing loss in my left ear. I lied about my hearing and moved on and then started to worry if I'd be tainting the results due to my dishonesty on the first page. I was enjoying it until the guilt caught up to me. I was half way through and couldn't finish. Damn if guilt didn't ruin yet another good time for me.
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If you click "yes" you have to fill out the text box below. That said, a little HF loss is pretty normal. I think it would really only affect things if it's a severe loss, especially in one ear more than the other, or some other, more severe hearing condition other than general age- and guitar-related hearing loss.
 
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