We asked the coders to assess whether a subject's free-form response indicated that the two stories were the same except for a few unimportant details, or they were different. Difference was liberally assessed as being different in at least one significant way. However, the difference had to be in content not in notation, ordering, or choice of words. That is, if Elliot were described as ``courageous, retiring, and diminutive'' in story-morph one, this would not be considered different from a description of ``brave, and shy'' in story-morph two, since the content is the same except for the relatively insignificant description of the character's size.
With (N = 35 pairs) we found:
In other sets of data produced by the coding, now being analyzed, we are beginning to find addional qualitative differences between the stories. For example, it appears that comments on the first story-morph cite references to Elliot being ``brave'' three times as often as do comments on the second story-morph.