URL of experiment: Pavlovia
Description of the problem:
I’ve designed my experiment so that every ten trials, the participant receives a message of encouragement. I’ve done this by adding a separate ‘breakTime’ routine. I have a counter variable in a different routine to count how many trials the participant has completed. If this number is not 10, 20, 30, etc, then the breakTime routine should skip and the experiment should go on to the next trial. Whereas, if they have completed 10, 20, 30, etc trials then they should see the encouraging text.
This works perfectly offline. However, online it behaves oddly. On a trial where the break screen shouldn’t show, there’s a delay between each trial. It’s as if the breakTime routine is still happening but the text isn’t shown. The routine shouldn’t be happening at all in this scenario.
Also, when the experiment does reach the tenth trial, the breakTime routine does occur as excepted, however, every trial after that (11th, 12th) will also be followed by the visible breakTime routine with the same encouraging text visible. Is something not being reset?
How do I fix this?
This is my flow for this experiment.
This is the code component that sets the encouraging text in the breakTime routine.
Thank you!