John-


I did some Blaise coding and part of the experimental design using it
for a political communication project here at Michigan a couple of
summers ago. We used it in a lab setting and had a very good
experience. Can't beat the upsides of having Ss do the data entry.
It's also a very flexible product, and you can insert AV stimuli in
it. Some of the downsides are that the code is not particularly
straightforward and that it wasn't designed to be a particularly
user-friendly self administered product. Still, there are some decent
ways around it with patience. There's a very big PDF manual online at
<fontfamily><param>Arial</param><color><param>0000,8080,0000</param>www.westat.com/blaise/pdf/RefManual.pdf
</color></fontfamily>but it isn't particularly helpful or easy to use.


I can answer programming stuff off-list to the extent that I remember
the details. Mostly, myself and one other grad student self-taught and
did trial-and-error. The folks here at the Survey Research Center
(part of the Michigan ISR) have expertise for hire, I believe.

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Dmitri Williams

Ph.D. Candidate

University of Michigan

Department of Communication Studies

dcwillia@umich.edu