03-19-2024, 11:23 AM
Hi Serena,
Setting max_trials to 300 in the corresponding block is probably going to work just fine. It actually doesn't affect FF's servers that much - it's usually the participants' browser may crash if there are too many trials generated at once. But that limit was put in in 2018, and computers have become significantly faster since then. We should probably revisit the limit as well.
Splitting the block is another viable strategy, but given its just 144 vs 288, I'd say just change max_trials to avoid the hassle. Once we are approaching 500 trials per block, breaking up the block becomes a better solution.
We are in fact working on changing how trials are generated under the hood so that this will hopefully become a non-issue in the near future (early 2025 I hope!).
Ting
Setting max_trials to 300 in the corresponding block is probably going to work just fine. It actually doesn't affect FF's servers that much - it's usually the participants' browser may crash if there are too many trials generated at once. But that limit was put in in 2018, and computers have become significantly faster since then. We should probably revisit the limit as well.
Splitting the block is another viable strategy, but given its just 144 vs 288, I'd say just change max_trials to avoid the hassle. Once we are approaching 500 trials per block, breaking up the block becomes a better solution.
We are in fact working on changing how trials are generated under the hood so that this will hopefully become a non-issue in the near future (early 2025 I hope!).
Ting