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Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

Table 4 Descriptive statistics for prior belief ratings for interventions in Experiment 2

From: When and why do people act on flawed science? Effects of anecdotes and prior beliefs on evidence-based decision-making

 

Effectiveness

Practicality

Personal Experience

M

SD

M

SD

M

SD

Virtual Reality

3.28

1.08

3.15

1.10

1.76

1.11

Tidy Classroom

3.87

1.16

3.70

1.09

3.18

1.17

Napping

2.95

1.27

2.34

1.21

2.09

0.96

Exercise

2.21

1.15

2.15

1.08

1.74

0.90

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