Information Easiness Affects Non-experts' Evaluation of Scientific Claims About Which They Hold Prior Beliefs.

Front Psychol · 2021 · PMC8430255 · PMID 34512439

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marginally significantp = 0.066so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

These main effects were qualified by a marginally significant comprehensibility × belief consistency interaction, F (1, 42) = 3.56, p = 0.066, ηp2 = 0.078, OP = 0.45 (see Figure 1 ).

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