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Randomized items are being skipped

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    Randomized items are being skipped

    [edited by moderator]

    My questionnaire consists of 3 fixed medialab-items, 20 randomized items and again 4 fixed medialab-items. The problem is that MediaLab skips many of the randomized items. The program then goes to the 4 medialab-items at the end of the questionnaire.

    Hope somebody knows what is happening here!

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    jarvis24 Blair Jarvis, Administrator
    I took a look at your questionnaire and I think I see what may be the problem. You have a prior skip setup on one of your fixed items which sends them to the first item in the random sequence. However, since the items are in a random (WGR) order, this would result in skipping anwhere from 0 to 19 of the items. Does that make sense? Perhaps you could insert a fixed instruction item just prior to the 20 items and skip to that point--so no matter what you then start off with the first of the 20 random items rather than wherever your "first" item ends up in the randomized order.

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    jarvis24 Blair Jarvis, Administrator
    [edited reply from support email]
    Your explanation fully explains this problem.
    Thank you