demographics survey. Once all raters were ready to begin evaluating the claims, the researchers explained the procedure to the raters in detail, and then showed them a practice snippet that was recorded by one of the research assistants, and edited and embedded into the slide show in the same manner as the other snippets to familiarize the raters with the video presentation format. Once the practice was concluded, raters were shown the data-relevant portion of the presentation, and asked to rate the veracity of each individual claim using the questionnaire. After the final snippet was shown, raters were instructed to leave their surveys on their desks. Researchers waited until all the raters had exited the room before collecting the surveys, which were checked to ensure that each surveys kept together, and coded to correspond with each other. This raters’ procedure was conducted two times; once for each presentation set. Data Analysis Before analyzing the data, we excluded 4 responses: 2 for completing less than raters’ half of the ratings, 1 for putting the same rating for all 40 claims, and 1 because the rater was 17 years old, which is younger than what the IRB allowed. We used IBM SPSS Version 20 to analyze the data we collected. Results We had five independent variables for this study, using a 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 design. The first was the sex of the rater (Sex of Rater). The second was the sex of the claimant (Sex of Claimant). The third was the actual veracity of the claim that was made (Actual Veracity): true or false. The type of claim that was made was broken down into the last two independent variables, each with two levels. Claimants either said they were in or not in a committed romantic or sexual relationship. Thus, our next independent variable was the current relationship
demographics survey. Once all raters were ready to begin evaluating the claims, the researchers explained the procedure to the raters in detail, and then showed them a practice snippet that was recorded by one of the research assistants, and edited and embedded into the slide show in the same manner as the other snippets to familiarize the raters with the video presentation format. Once the practice was concluded, raters were shown the data-relevant portion of the presentation, and asked to rate the veracity of each individual claim using the questionnaire. After the final snippet was shown, raters were instructed to leave their surveys on their desks. Researchers waited until all the raters had exited the room before collecting the surveys, which were checked to ensure that each raters’ surveys kept together, and coded to correspond with each other. This procedure was conducted two times; once for each presentation set. Data Analysis Before analyzing the data, we excluded 4 raters’ responses: 2 for completing less than half of the ratings, 1 for putting the same rating for all 40 claims, and 1 because the rater was 17 years old, which is younger than what the IRB allowed. We used IBM SPSS Version 20 to analyze the data we collected. Results We had five independent variables for this study, using a 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 design. The first was the sex of the rater (Sex of Rater). The second was the sex of the claimant (Sex of Claimant). The third was the actual veracity of the claim that was made (Actual Veracity): true or false. The type of claim that was made was broken down into the last two independent variables, each with two levels. Claimants either said they were in or not in a committed romantic or sexual relationship. Thus, our next independent variable was the current relationship
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