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[AUDITORY] Reminder: Speed Sound Finding Experiment



probably many readers caught this, but just to make sure:
The reminder for the speech sound finding experiment contained a somewhat questionable phrase:

> We are missing a few participants to reach statistical significance so
> please consider giving it a try:

Stopping data collection when an effect becomes significant is a very problematic research strategy,
see the paper by Simmons et al. in PsychScience (http://pss.sagepub.com/content/22/11/1359.abstract).