III. Viewing the Results

When you have finished answering all of the locations, and all of the questions. The toolbar will look like below:

1)To view results of the simulation left click on the button.

2) If you did not select any questions the drop down menu will look like below:

 


A) Viewing the Warped Map

1) To view the warped map select the
checkbox from the View menu.

2) when you select Warped Map from the View Menu, the checkbox will become checked

The border of the actual map will turn gray, and the Warped Map border will be red. Thw Warped Map shows how the outline of the Map would look if the locations were where you thought they were. This is your "Mental Map", or how you spatially relate where these locations are in actuality.

if you would like to hide the map, click on the checkbox in the View Menu.

When you click on the checkbox when it is already selected, it will become de-selected, and the warped map will disappear.

 


B) Viewing the Actual Locations

1)To show where the actual locations are on the map (Compared with where you entered them), left click on the checkbox in the View Menu.

2) When you select this option, the checkbox will become selected

And the Actual Locations will appear as black rectangles, with labels beside them.

...To hide the Actual Locations, click on the checkbox.

The checkbox will become un-checked , and the Actual locations, and labels will disappear.

 


 

C) Viewing Vectors from Your Locations to Actual Locations

Before you select any options from the View Drop-Down menu, the Vectors to Actual Locations checkbox is not enabled.

If you have Actual Locations Selected in the View Menu , The option to view Vectors will be enabled

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Occasionally, it may be confusing to determine which Location you entered corresponds to which Actual Location, to view a Line between the Actual Location and the Location you entered, Select the checkbox from the View Menu.

when you select this option, the checkbox will be selected .

Green lines will connect the Actual Locations (Which are black rectangles) to the Locations you entered (Which are green rectangles). This will help you determine how far off your answers were.

If you would like to make the vectors disappear, click on the checkbox in the View Menu. The checkbox will become de-selected , and the Green vector lines will disappear.

 


D) Viewing Question Results

If, at the begining of the Simulation, you chose Questions for the simulation, when the simulation is completed the View Menu will look similar to the one below:

 

1) If you would like to see how close your answers were to the actual answers click on the checkbox.

2) When you select this option, the checkbox will become selected.

... a new Window will appear with a table on it. This table will look different depending on which, and how many questions you answered, and also how many locations you were asked. Generally it will look like below:

The First Column will allways contain the Location, and the Title of the second column will be the name of the Question (in the Above example it is "Population"), and below the name are the actual answers to this Question for the Location on any row. The third column titled "Yours" is the answer you gave on this question.

If you would like to hide the Question Results window, you can click on the in the upper right hand corner of the window, or go through the View Menu and deselect the checkbox.

 


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