3.3 Questionairre: Magnitude Estimation

Instruction:

You will see a series of sentences presented one at a time on the screen. Each sentence is different. Some will seem perfectly ok to you, but others will not. Your task is to judge how good or bad each sentence is by assigning a number to it.

You will first see a reference sentence, and you can use any number that seems appropriate to you for this reference. For each sentence after the reference, you will assign a number to show how good or bad that sentence is in proportion to the reference sentence. For example, if the reference sentence was:

(1) The dog the bone ate.

you would probably give it a rather low number. (You are free to decide what ‚low‘ or ‚high‘ means in this context). If the next example:

(2) The dog devoured yesterday the bone.

seemed 10 times better than the reference, you‘d give it a number 10 times the number you gave to the reference. If it seemed half as good as the reference, you‘d give it a number half the number you gave the reference.

You can use any range of positive numbers that you like, including decimal numbers. There is no upper or lower limit to the numbers you can use, except that you cannot use zero or negative numbers. Try to use a wide range of numbers and to distinguish as many degrees of acceptability as possible. There are no ‚correct‘ answers, so whatever seems right to you is a valid response. We are interested in your first

impressions, so please don‘t take too much time to think about any one sentence: try to make up your mind quickly, spending less than 10 seconds on a sentence.

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