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[Ted Han]

On 7/6/05, Mark Richman <markrichman at lycos.com> wrote:
> With the interest in eye-tracking vs. think-aloud, it would be very interesting to see if there were any studies that compared the two...

Maybe it's just my bias as a psycholinguist, but i've been taught to
be s(c\k)eptical of conscious feed-back from naive subjects (not that
such results are not useful, or that they are inaccurate) because of
the possibility that explaining what one is doing may interfere with
the task under study.  I inquired because clearly, the sorts of tasks
under discussion here have different objectives and metrics than tasks
that i'm familiar w/ as a linguist (and if you're not checking
response time in milliseconds, just asking your subjects may well be
good enough!).  So yes, as you put it, i guess i was curious whether
there were any eyetracking vs. introspection comparisons, since these
sort of discussion have essentially been decided in other areas of
research. :)

I'll have to go dig around after work.

-T