Table 6.
Changes in decisions as a function of when participants received contextual information. Participants in groups H-A and S-A received the context before the autopsy information, and participants in groups A-H and A-S received the context after the autopsy information. The latter changed their decisions much more than the former.
| Death Cases |
Mean |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| GROUPS | Context First |
H-A | 23.1% (18/78) | 13.5% (10/74) | 18.8% (13/69) | 18.8% (12/64) | 18.6% |
| S-A | 16.7% (12/72) | 10.4% (7/67) | 15.6% (10/64) | 12.5% (8/64) | 13.9% | ||
| Mean Context First | 20.0% | 12.1% | 17.3% | 15.6% | 16.3% | ||
| Context Second |
A-H | 8.8% (8/68) | 48.4% (30/62) | 33.3% (20/60) | 13.3% (8/60) | 26.4% | |
| A-S | 68.8% (53/77) | 66.2% (47/71) | 50.7% (35/69) | 62.5% (40/64) | 62.3% | ||
| Mean Context Second | 42.1% | 57.9% | 42.6% | 38.7% | 45.4% | ||