{"id":756,"date":"2009-11-20T03:12:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T07:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=756"},"modified":"2013-11-06T05:36:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T10:36:56","slug":"very-quick-experiment-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"Very Quick Experiment Follow-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly <em>zero <\/em>people have helped out with my <a href=\/?p=755>&#8220;Very Quick Experiment&#8221; post<\/a>. For that reason I <em>shouldn&#8217;t<\/em> tell you why I was asking.<\/p>\n<p>But, I have a weakness for ranting, so I can&#8217;t help myself.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Please let me know what your head size is. You can measure your head size with a tape measure, going around the circumference of your head, just above the ears.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those (<em>what I hope were<\/em>) very simple, very straightfoward instructions are sent to potential research subjects for my study. The issue is this: we have two EEG caps &#8212; one small, one medium &#8212; they are very expensive, and after cleaning them in the disinfectant, they take a while to dry. So we can&#8217;t afford to buy more, and we can&#8217;t really use them more than once a day. However, we <del datetime=\"2009-11-18T22:57:57+00:00\">want<\/del> <em>need <\/em>to scan approx 10 subjects per week, which means we need to try to get in one person with a medium-sized head, and one with a small sized head on the same day at least a few times a week. So when scheduling people, we need to know their head size. Since we schedule by phone or email, we need people to (at least somewhat accurately) measure their own heads.<\/p>\n<p>Wayfare said that would never work as soon as she found out about it. <em>No way<\/em> were people going to be able to follow simple instructions and measure their head size. I figured that it can&#8217;t be <em>that <\/em>hard, especially since most of our volunteers are <em>university <\/em>students; <strong>science <\/strong>undergrads for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>Well, either Wayfare was right, or we&#8217;ve got some extras from Beetlejuice coming in to volunteer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yourprops.com\/norm-4a64cecbaf73f-Beetlejuice+(1988).jpeg\" title='Image from http:\/\/www.yourprops.com\/' alt='Shrunken-head guy from Beetlejuice' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly zero people have helped out with my &#8220;Very Quick Experiment&#8221; post. For that reason I shouldn&#8217;t tell you why I was asking. But, I have a weakness for ranting, so I can&#8217;t help myself. Please let me know what your head size is. You can measure your head size with a tape measure, going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}