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Some results from our first #COVID19 experiment!
We found that highlighting (i) risks to vulnerable people (e.g. the elderly & healthcare workers) and (ii) the transmission rate of the virus could to do better at promoting social distancing than current advice. (1/8)
We found that highlighting (i) risks to vulnerable people (e.g. the elderly & healthcare workers) and (ii) the transmission rate of the virus could to do better at promoting social distancing than current advice. (1/8)
We designed the poster below to highlight risks to identifiable people especially vulnerable to COVID-19 (inspired by https://bit.ly/2X42Qcw )">https://bit.ly/2X42Qcw&q... and, similar to results from @M_B_Petersen, participants were more supportive of social distancing afterwards (2/8)
Our & #39;transmission rate& #39; poster tried to get at the exponential rate of transmission of #coronavirus - and participants were more cautious about e.g. visiting others after viewing this one too (3/8)
We measured judgements about & #39;marginal behaviours& #39; related to social distancing - in focus groups they were the kinds of things people weren& #39;t sure about (2wks ago): meeting up with friends outdoors, visiting parents, letting kids play together (4/8)
And we scored how & #39;cautious& #39; participants were, based on how much they intended to do those things or how acceptable it was for others to (all done before any hypothesis testing) (5/8)
Importantly we asked these qs in a different stage of the exp - in the & #39;poster stage& #39;, participants were just asked how effective & memorable they thought our posters would be at promoting social distancing, compared to below control advice (6/8)
And, similar to @mollycrockett and others, we found that participants thought that our messaging would be the least effective (& not at all memorable) - but our messages had a later effect in the right direction! #importanceofpretesting (7/8)
A lot more we could have tested in the paper - this experiment was just one part of a wider study on general comprehension about mitigation measures - but we& #39;ve stuck to our pre-reg& #39;d hypotheses for now.
w/ @cameronabelton and other non-Twitter BRU members @ESRIDublin (8/8)
w/ @cameronabelton and other non-Twitter BRU members @ESRIDublin (8/8)
The paper is probably important to link to... https://www.esri.ie/system/files/publications/WP658.pdf">https://www.esri.ie/system/fi... (9/8)
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This experiment (and our second exp that& #39;s just finished) was coded and run on the very useful @GorillaPsyc
