What is the highest level of education that you have completed?
Have you taken any courses in computer science?
Were you previously familiar with the subject matter presented in the story?
Do you have a subscription to an online news media resource? (e.g. The New York Times, The Guardian, etc.)
How often do you regularly consume news articles on the web?
What type of mouse or input device did you use to navigate the story?
Reading through the story was fun.
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The reading experience interested me in the story.
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I forgot about my immediate surroundings while reading through this story.
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My reading experience was rewarding.
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I found this story confusing to read through.
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I was really drawn into the reading experience.
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This story was aesthetically appealing to read.
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The reading experience encouraged me to finish reading the story.
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The reading experience was different from a typical online reading experience.
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Reading through this story was mentally taxing.
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This reading experience appealed to my visual senses.
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I was absorbed in reading the story.
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I felt frustrated, annoyed, or discouraged while reading through this story.
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The time I spent reading just slipped away.
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I read the text primarily, and the visualizations & animated transitions were secondary.
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I read the visualizations & animated transitions primarily, and the text was secondary.
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I needed the visualizations to understand the story.
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I needed the animated transitions to understand the story.
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While reading the story, I went back to read the text:
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While reading the story, I went back to read the visualizations:
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While reading the story, I went back to replay animated transitions:
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I felt that I was in control of the pace of the text in the story.
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I felt that I was in control of the pace of the animated transitions in the story.
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I felt that I was in control of navigating the entire story.
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I am confident that I was able to understand the story in all its parts: text, visualizations, and animated transitions.
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Do you have a preference between the two conditions?
How would you classify the type of thinker you are?
What is one of the best ways to discern between homes in the two locations presented in the story?
What is the method for making predictions shown in this story?
What is the first dataset you run through this method called?
When does overfitting occur?

Imagine a scenario where you are performing a similar technique to study someone's favorite types of music. This tool would support finding new artists and albums based on your past interests and favorite music items. Let's say you love all kinds of rock music and select your top 5 artists along with 5 artists you dislike, both categorized by how loud the music is. Based on this split point, the tool reports 10 new kinds of artists that you may like, only 8 of which are actually rock bands and interest you, so 2 of those artists are not ideal. What do we call those 2 artists?


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