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Table 3 Means, standard deviations (in brackets) and analyses on match and non-match trials pre-training and post-training between groups in Experiment 3

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

 

Match trial means

Non-match trial means

 

Pre-training

Post-specific training

Post-general training

Pre-training

Post-specific training

Post-general training

Trained novices

0.64 (0.48)

0.58 (0.49)

0.65 (0.48)

0.61 (0.49)

0.62 (0.49)

0.61 (0.49)

Fingerprint examiners

0.90 (0.30)

0.94 (0.24)

0.86 (0.24)

0.97 (0.17)

0.99 (0.11)

0.99 (0.10)

 

b

t

p

95% CI

Match trial analysis

Time (Post-specific training)

− 0.27

0.65

0.515

[− 1.07, 0.54]

Time (Post-general training)

0.09

0.21

0.834

[− 0.72, 0.89]

Group

1.97

9.63

< 0.001

[1.57, 2.38]

Time (Specific) * group

1.09

4.45

< 0.001

[0.61, 1.56]

Time (General) * group

− 0.51

2.50

0.013

[− 0.92, − 0.11]

Non-match trial analysis

Time (Post-specific training)

0.08

0.27

0.788

[− 0.52, 0.69]

Time (Post-general training)

0.02

0.07

0.945

[− 0.58, 0.62]

Group

3.88

11.21

< 0.001

[3.20, 4.56]

Time (Specific) * group

0.66

1.57

0.117

[− 0.16, 1.48]

Time (General) * group

0.95

2.12

0.034

[0.07, 1.83]