English native speakers for for language experiment needed

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Welcome to the forum, danireisen.

Your link led me to an error message.
[h=2] Ups, hier hat sich ein Fehler eingeschlichen...
[/h]Fehler-Code: 403
 

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Hmm... seems like its not able to click on the link directly, try to copy and paste it into your browser.
Hope that works.
 

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That works. I'll try the rating when I have a little more time.
 

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Thank you!
 

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I'm having problem that could affect the results. Are we judging the second second in relation to the first, or as a sentence on its own?
For example, this pair:
"A scan confirmed that the private laptops contained sensitive customer data. Instantly, the supervisor dismissed the employee who was the initiator of the adroit theft."
The second sentence is perfectly acceptable to me, but bears little relation to the first, and therefore is not entirely "natural". I assume that I should still give it a 7, since it is only the second that we are judging. I don't think this is made clear enough.
Maybe with "The first sentence serves as context, it does not need to be rated", you could add, "The second sentence should not be rated on how naturally it follows the context" (if indeed that is true).
 
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I'm having a problem that could affect the results. Are we judging the second second in relation to the first, or as a sentence on its own?.
I gave up, because I was not sure about this. Some of the second sentences are fine on their own, but unnatural as a follow-on to the first.
 

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The idea is that you read both sentences, but your rating should be about the second sentence regardless of what the first sentence says.
Hope that helps. I'm afraid that I'm not able to further elaborate on this as this may give away some of the more important parts.
 
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