. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Exp Soc Psychol. 2012 Oct 13;49(3):559–565. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.09.005

Table 1.

Proportion of participants who provided consistent answers in Experiments 1 and 2 with standard deviation in square brackets and the proportion of all participants who consistently responded that only one character could be right in parentheses.

Belief Category
Experiment 1
	Preference	Doctrine	Faith	Fact
5–6 Year Olds	.44 [.50] (.16)^***	.50 [.51] (.46)^***	.45 [.50] (.39)^***	.77 [.43] (.75)^**
7–10 Year Olds	.84 [.37] (.03)^**	.49 [.50] (.21)^***	.43 [.50] (.18)^***	.65 [.48] (.64)^***
Adults	.74 [.44] (.17)^***	.50 [.50] (.03)^***	.59 [.50] (.20)^***	.47 [.50] (.44)^***
Experiment 2
	Preference	Religion		Fact
5–6 Year Olds	.63 [.49] (.20)^***	.38 [.49] (.29)^***		.46 [.51] (.44)^***
7–10 Year Olds	.75 [.44] (.07)^***	.40 [.49] (.17)^***		.49 [.50] (.42)^***
Adults	.89 [.31] (.03)^*	.51 [.51] (.19)^***		.41 [.50] (.33)^***

We conducted a series of one-sample t tests using proportion of participants who provided consistent answers (regardless of whether they said that only one or both characters could be right) to determine whether each proportion was significantly different from 1.0 (indicating perfect consistency);

p < .05;

^**

p = .001;

^***

p < .001.