A similar marginally significant difference between groups was also detected when averaging the three individual beliefs into one variable, F (1, 76) = 3.02, p = 0.086, M control = 4.83, SE = 0.17; M experimental = 4.35, SE = 0.22, η p a r t i a l 2 = 0.04.
However, as this finding was unpredicted and did not reach statistical significance, it may be spurious and should be further corroborated.
This difference approached significance for two of the three variables [“Laws limiting privacy and individual freedom in the name of state security are in fact tools of the elite to enslave the population”, F (1, 76) = 3.27; p = 0.074, M control = 4.27, SE = 0.25; M experimental = 3.62, SE = 0.25, η 2 partial = 0.04; and “Some groups are in possession of extremely advanced military technology, whose existence is kept secret.”, F (1, 76) = 3.39, p = 0.069, M control = 4.93, SE = 0.22; M experimental = 4.24, S.E = 0.31, η p a r t i a l 2 = 0.04].