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Table 1 Means, standard deviations (in brackets), and analyses on match and non-match trials pre-training and post-training between conditions in Experiment 1

From: Statistical feature training improves fingerprint-matching accuracy in novices and professional fingerprint examiners

 

Match trial means

Non-match trial means

Fingerprint task

Pre-training

Post-training

Pre-training

Post-training

Untrained novices

0.59 (0.49)

0.57 (0.50)

0.59 (0.49)

0.53 (0.50)

Trained novices

0.65 (0.48)

0.67 (0.47)

0.61 (0.49)

0.69 (0.40)

Face task

Pre-training

Post-training

Pre-training

Post-training

Untrained novices

0.82 (0.38)

0.80 (0.40)

0.76 (0.43)

0.77 (0.42)

Trained novices

0.90 (0.30)

0.90 (0.30)

0.81 (0.40)

0.81 (0.39)

 

b

t

p

95% CI

Fingerprint comparison analysis (match trials)

Condition

0.45

20.42

0.016

[0.09, 0.81]

Time

0.06

0.17

0.867

[− 0.62, 0.73]

Condition* time

0.03

0.19

0.854

[− 0.27, 0.32]

Fingerprint comparison analysis (non-match trials)

Condition

0.88

40.61

< 0.001

[0.51, 1.26]

Time

0.34

10.07

0.284

[− 0.28, 0.97]

Condition* time

− 0.74

40.98

< 0.001

[− 1.03, − 0.45]

Face comparison analysis (match trials)

Condition

0.96

30.60

< 0.001

[0.44, 1.48]

Time

0.15

0.66

0.509

[− 0.30, 0.61]

Condition* time

− 0.16

0.20

0.432

[− 0.54, 0.23]

Face comparison analysis (non-match trials)

Condition

0.29

1.16

0.245

[− 0.20, 0.79]

Time

< 0.01

< 0.01

0.999

[− 0.50, 0.50]

Condition* time

− 0.03

0.160

0.873

[− 36, 0.31]