Coherence Quiz answers
As promised, the results of yesterday's little experiment on "Coherence of sentence sequences" are here.
A tabular summary:
Question | Correct | Wrong |
1 | 166 (98%) | 4 (2%) |
2 | 135 (80%) | 33 (20%) |
3 | 167 (99%) | 2 (1%) |
4 | 158 (93%) | 12 (7%) |
5 | 113 (67%) | 56 (33%) |
6 | 152 (90%) | 17 (10%) |
7 | 165 (97%) | 5 (3%) |
8 | 115 (68%) | 55 (32%) |
9 | 169 (99%) | 1 (1%) |
10 | 167 (98%) | 3 (2%) |
11 | 163 (96%) | 7 (4%) |
12 | 137 (81%) | 32 (19%) |
So the survey respondents (as a whole) guessed the original order of all twelve sentence-pairs correctly — though the margins varied from 2-to-1 to 99-to-1. The overall percent correct was 89%, though of course that percentage will depend on the particular mix of examples.
(The counts don't all sum to the same row-wise value because a couple of participants left some answers blank — there's probably a way to get Qualtrics to prevent that, but I didn't figure it out in time…)
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