The UI for the stock-buying game is a bit obtuse. My initial reactions: (1) “so wait, do I start by buying and selling with the buy/sell buttons or by manually entering numbers on the left?”, (2) “what is the trigger for moving to the next round—is it buying/selling, in which case I only get to make one trade per round, or the continue button, or what?”, (3) “I hope it’s not the continue button, because if I press that and it means ‘next question’ like everywhere else then I’ll get kicked out of the game”. Oh, and (4) “would it have killed him to make the initial budget a multiple of 6?”.
(The answers turn out to be: 1. despite the little arrows on the fields at the left suggesting you can change them, you can’t; you set up your initial portfolio with the buy and sell buttons. 2. the continue button proceeds to the next round. 3. the continue button does not take you out of the game.)
The rubric was also a little ambiguous about whether the sizes of price change are fixed for each stock or vary from round to round. It turns out to be the latter. I would have chosen slightly differently in my first set of updates if I had known this.
Oh, and it would be nice if it were clearer whether the lucky winner is going to get (1) the amount they gained in this game (if positive) or (2) the amount they ended up with in this game.
Unfortunately I cannot fix the UI problems, because I lack the programming skills and asked a fried to set up the survey for me. He is pretty busy now and I don’t want to bother him again, since I already requested many changes before the survey went live.
The winner will gain the amount he ended up with not only the gains.
Is that investment game packaged anywhere (preferably with a better UI) so I can run it multiple times, and (afterward) see the actual probabilities of the items? I think I got somewhat unlucky and my explore/exploit mix didn’t pay off as I’d hoped, but I’d have fun exploring an optimium method.
The UI for the stock-buying game is a bit obtuse. My initial reactions: (1) “so wait, do I start by buying and selling with the buy/sell buttons or by manually entering numbers on the left?”, (2) “what is the trigger for moving to the next round—is it buying/selling, in which case I only get to make one trade per round, or the continue button, or what?”, (3) “I hope it’s not the continue button, because if I press that and it means ‘next question’ like everywhere else then I’ll get kicked out of the game”. Oh, and (4) “would it have killed him to make the initial budget a multiple of 6?”.
(The answers turn out to be: 1. despite the little arrows on the fields at the left suggesting you can change them, you can’t; you set up your initial portfolio with the buy and sell buttons. 2. the continue button proceeds to the next round. 3. the continue button does not take you out of the game.)
The rubric was also a little ambiguous about whether the sizes of price change are fixed for each stock or vary from round to round. It turns out to be the latter. I would have chosen slightly differently in my first set of updates if I had known this.
Oh, and it would be nice if it were clearer whether the lucky winner is going to get (1) the amount they gained in this game (if positive) or (2) the amount they ended up with in this game.
Unfortunately I cannot fix the UI problems, because I lack the programming skills and asked a fried to set up the survey for me. He is pretty busy now and I don’t want to bother him again, since I already requested many changes before the survey went live. The winner will gain the amount he ended up with not only the gains.
There’s no reason to run your own survey software. SurveyMonkey or even Google forms do the job.
Did you see the little investment game at the end? I would be very surprised if you could replicate that in SurveyMonkey or Google Forms.
Is that investment game packaged anywhere (preferably with a better UI) so I can run it multiple times, and (afterward) see the actual probabilities of the items? I think I got somewhat unlucky and my explore/exploit mix didn’t pay off as I’d hoped, but I’d have fun exploring an optimium method.
Fair enough! I hope what I’ve written above will be helpful to anyone else who finds it initially puzzling the same way as I did.