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I tried three times, but the controls seemed to work sporadically: sometimes having no effect, sometimes seeming to get 'stuck down', sometimes taking an action I didn't press the button for (or, perhaps, doing what I asked but with a several-second delay). Hopefully this didn't generate too much spurious data for you, sorry!

That is perfectly fine! I agree that the game controls are not superb, and I did not program that part myself. The game is a modified version of the MarioAI from http://www.marioai.org/.

There should be no delay generated by submitting game play data as it occurs on a separate thread.
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I believe this may skew your results, i attempted to play as well, and the controls being delayed/ignored is most likly going to really effect your results. unless your goal also includes seeing how different gender's will react to unresponsive controls.