Table 6.
Logistic regression predicting sentencing decision from continuous expert persuasion expectancy (ExPEx) ratings and witness credibility score (WCS) for likeability.
| B | SE | Wald | df | p | Odds Ratio | 95% CI for Odds Ratio | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower | Upper | |||||||
| Foundation* | 0.028* | 0.012 | 5.25 | 1 | 0.022 | 1.03 | 1.00 | 1.05 |
| Field | −0.009 | 0.012 | 0.6 | 1 | 0.439 | 0.99 | 0.97 | 1.01 |
| Specialty | −0.004 | 0.014 | 0.095 | 1 | 0.758 | 0.996 | 0.97 | 1.02 |
| Ability | 0.002 | 0.013 | 0.03 | 1 | 0.869 | 1.00 | 0.98 | 1.03 |
| Opinion | 0.016 | 0.012 | 1.83 | 1 | 0.177 | 1.02 | 0.99 | 1.04 |
| Support | <0.001 | 0.008 | 0.001 | 1 | 0.974 | 1 | 0.98 | 1.02 |
| Consistent | −0.006 | 0.012 | 0.293 | 1 | 0.588 | 0.99 | 0.97 | 1.02 |
| Trustworthy | 0.034** | 0.012 | 8.46 | 1 | 0.004 | 1.03 | 1.01 | 1.06 |
| WCS-Likeability | −0.027 | 0.017 | 2.64 | 1 | 0.104 | 0.97 | 0.94 | 1.01 |
Life in prison was coded as zero and death was coded as one. B, unstandardised regression coefficient; SE B, standard error of the coefficient; CI, confidence interval.
*
p < 0.05,
**
p < 0.01,
***p ≤ 0.001.