WIPS #2

"Thinking in Color"

Samantha Patton did two presentations. She did one on Parkinson's Disease and then this one. She sped through both presentations, and she seemed knowledgeable, but it was like she expected us to know the "scientific" words she was using. In the "Thinking in Color" presentation, they were looking to see if there was a pattern in connecting certain words with certain colors. They took a study on 52 students to see. They used 50 concrete words and 150 abstract. Concrete being words like bear, arm, chair, and the abstract words being like nowhere and such. After they got the results, they grouped the results by 11 colors based off the responses. They then narrowed it to the top 75 abstract words and are going to use that for the next experiment. They'll use around 30 students and are going to use a stroop based format for sampling. They will have a color choice but they won't be able to choose brown anymore. They are hoping for a desired result, but they may not get it due to low statistics. They are comparing response times and accuracy. Things like connecting green with envy or economy. She didn't give much time to take notes, and she seemed to expect us to know the experiment. She seemed more confident, but it lacked the explaining process. This one is a little harder to talk about since she went so fast.