Re: [Heartlogic-dev] jim's feedback - "marvin believes" <italics>

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 23:32 -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote:
> Joshua,
> 
> I have just put this on the following Wiki page:
> 
> http://wiki.nirmalvihar.info/index.cgi?HowToPresentItems
> 
> Can you execute the ToDo below?
> 
> Another thing that the 2005-06-01 pilot participant said was
> that when presenting items like...
> 
> Marvin the robot believes
> 
> Spouses do not love each other.
> 
> Rate the believability of the statement.
> 
> ...it is ambiguous whether we want the participant to rate (a) how
> believable it is that some robot named Marvin believes that XOR (b)
> how believable that plain old assertion is.  We want (b).  To increase
> the likelihood of (b) ToDo (2005-06-05) Joshua can you make it put a
> colon after "believes" and then put the actual assertion in
> italics...E.g. like so...
> 
> Marvin the robot believes:
> 
> [indent-if-possible] <i>Spouses do not love each other.</i>
> 
> Rate the believability of the statement.
> 
> ...We should ask our pilot users how clear it is that we want (b) and
> whether or not (a) even crossed their minds.

Done.

In the future, it is probably not necessary to edit the wiki and
separately post the same change to the mailing list.  If you want to
make sure that I notice something then you can send me another email
privately.

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