When comparing two male candidates with equal experience, but one said to have leadership potential,
study participants rated his resumé higher and perceived him as being a more successful candidate overall.
Sascha Topolinski at the University of Würzburg, Germany, found that 27
study participants rated seemingly random numbers such as 373863 and 7245346 as equally pleasant.
Based on the information provided,
the study participants rated how likely it was that the man was sexist and how likely he was to be racist.
Topolinski found that 27 German
study participants rated seemingly random numbers such as 373863 and 7245346 as equally pleasant.
Not exact matches
In a British - Turkish
study,
participants looked at photos of men in tailored versus off - the - peg suits for just five seconds, with the guys in tailored suits
rated as more successful.
Before the
study began, researchers asked 76
participants to
rate the quality of a number of short films.
A small 2009
study found that of the 41
participants with mild cognitive impairment, those who had higher stress
ratings also had faster
rates of cognitive decline.
One
study found that when
participants observed cheating in a trust game, their heart
rates increased.
Feature on Voya's research
study revealing a high automatic enrollment default savings
rate does not deter
participant enrollment, contrary to most employers» outlooks.
Limitations of the
study included low response
rate for control families, higher socioeconomic status in
participants vs. nonparticipants, possible residual confounding despite multivariate analysis, and possible recall bias because of retrospective design.
The convenience sampling frame (including recruitment via social media) is a limitation of this
study, because it prevents us from calculating a response
rate as it is unknown how many eligible
participants were invited to the
study / saw the advertisement.
As the breastfeeding intervention can not be blinded, we
rated all
studies as being at high risk of bias for blinding of
participants and personnel.
In fact, according to a
study in Breastfeeding Medicine, mothers with lower
rates of breastfeeding «tend to be young, low - income, African American, unmarried, less educated,
participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), overweight or obese before pregnancy, and more likely to report their pregnancy was unintended.»
Another limitation was the response
rate of
study participants.
A previous
study showed that in the Campania region, the prevalence of full breastfeeding at 6 months was 7 %.12 Assuming a 20 % loss to follow - up, we calculated that we would require ∼ 240 mother and father pairs to detect a statistically significant increase of 15 % (1 − α = 95 %, 1 − β = 80 %) in the
rate of full breastfeeding at 6 months.13 To avoid communication between
study groups, which would be likely if people who were admitted to the same hospital unit were exposed to different messages at the same time, we did not randomize the
participants as it usually is done, 14 but we allocated the 2
study groups into 2 consecutive blocks of time, after having randomly paired the 2
study groups with the 2 blocks of time.
The
study, recently published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, is one of the first to evaluate the
rate of depression in mothers at the three onset time points: 24.9 percent of
participants developed depression pre-pregnancy, 36.7 percent developed it during pregnancy (prenatal) and 38.4 percent developed depression during the postpartum period.
The
study participants were shown another sunscreen label where UV - A protection was designated as a star
rating (out of four stars) and UV - B protection as an SPF value.
Results showed that, among
study participants with asymmetry in temporal lobe high frequency electrical activity, those with right compared to left side asymmetry had higher resting heart
rates and other changes suggesting that the cardiovascular system may be less capable of adapting to shifting circumstances.
In 2006, Matthew Salganik and his colleagues at Columbia University published a
study of an artificial «music market,» in which
participants could listen to,
rate and download dozens of different tracks.
Principal investigator Charles H. Tegeler, M.D., professor of neurology at Wake Forest Baptist, and his team, performed five - minute recordings of heart
rate and blood pressure in 131
study participants, during the enrollment visit, to assess the effect of the autonomic nervous system on the cardiovascular system.
More striking, a follow - up
study showed that the link between perceived trustworthiness and sentencing emerged even when
participants rated photos of inmates who had been sentenced but who were actually innocent and were later exonerated.
The researchers used a heart
rate monitor with GPS to measure the stress response in
study participants in two randomly selected Philadelphia neighborhoods as they went on a prescribed walk around their neighborhood.
The
study, recently published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, is one of the first to evaluate the
rate of depression in mothers at the three onset time points: 24.9 percent of
participants developed depression pre-pregnancy, 36.7 percent developed it during pregnancy (prenatal) and 38.4 percent developed depression during the postpartum period.
Participants in the
study were asked to evaluate a series of hypothetical online experiences and
rate to what degree the experiences met their privacy expectations and conformed to privacy notices.
The
study's primary outcomes measure was the
rate of exacerbation, defined as the number of exacerbation events per
participant year.
Study results show the response
rate for all treated patients with sofosbuvir was 78 percent compared to 0 percent in
participants treated with placebo agents.
The National Institutes of Health - funded
study, published July 2 in the New England Journal of Medicine, also found that
participants in Sweden had higher
rates of celiac disease than
participants in the United States, Finland and Germany, even with the same genetic risks.
Study participants were then asked to
rate how much they agree with a series of statements about killing animals, such as, «It is often necessary to control for animal overpopulation through different means, such as hunting or euthanasia,» or, «An experiment should never cause the killing of animals.»
The research team explored data from more than 100,000
participants in the Nurses» Health
Study (NHS), looking at
rates of cardiovascular disease, specifically incidence of coronary heart disease and stroke.
Study participants were adolescents with anorexia nervosa who required hospitalization for malnutrition indicated by low body temperature, blood pressure, heart
rate and body mass index.
«All of our
study participants whose ABIs have been activated are progressing at expected or better
rates.
«Therefore this
study is important for those who will decide on the allocation of the data
rate,» says Lars Jonsson, technology strategist at Swedish Radio, one of the
participants in the project.
This initial model was tested in a
study where
participants rated the funniness of verbal puns, as well as the funniness of variants of these jokes (e.g. the punchline on its own, the set - up on its own).
The
study participants whose diets scored highest on the MIND diet score had substantially slower
rate of cognitive decline than those who scored lowest.
A new
study now shows that history of TBI (with loss of consciousness) does not appear to affect the
rate of cognitive change over time for
participants with normal cognition or even those with AD dementia.
The
study measured a range of MS indicators and symptoms, including brain lesions on MRI brain scans of
study participants, relapse
rate, disabilities caused by the disease, body weight and cholesterol levels.
This matched the findings from a previously published paper from the same experiment which found that heart
rate and respiratory synchronization disappeared when the male
study participant couldn't hold her hand to ease her pain.
The
study involved 144
participants, aged 18 to 33 years, having their heart
rate and blood pressure measured before and after a brief internet session.
Of the over 6,000 individuals included in the
study, findings suggest that 16.6 percent (approximately 1 in 6) of
participants would be reclassified as having «at goal» blood pressure under the new guidelines with
rates similar across black and white individuals.
Because long - term AZT treatment is known to cut transmission
rates in the United States and Europe, Wolfe argued, it is unethical to withhold such treatment from
study participants in the developing world.
In addition,
rates of patient death and cancer relapse among the
study participants were similar to historical averages.
When the images were shown to
study participants separately, they
rated the «thin only» and «toned and thin» versions as being equally attractive.
«This program capitalizes on local resources that can bring about change in behavior and improve blood pressure
rates,» said Monique Anderson, M.D., lead researcher of the
study and a medical instructor in cardiology at the Duke Clinical Research Institute and the Duke School of Medicine in Durham, N.C. «As
participants became more knowledgeable, they probably started exercising more, taking their medication more, and those who were really engaged showed dramatic responses in blood pressure change.»
The
participants completed a survey to
rate the quality of their sleep every month throughout the
study.
And they maintained a high retention
rate by assiduously keeping track of the
participants, a quarter of whom have emigrated from New Zealand, financing travel back to the
study site, and visiting
study members who were in prison or too sick to travel.
An important aspect of the
study is that
participants had a higher - than - expected
rate of adverse events due to their high risk profile.
In previous
studies, the researchers showed that CPC program
participants have attained higher incomes, and experienced lower
rates of serious crime, incarceration, and depression than
participants of other programs.
At the end of the
study,
participants were asked to
rate the drug's potency (scale of 1 — 10).
The
study's strengths included its randomized controlled design and a high
participant retention
rate among the 78 teen girls in the
study.
Patients with other blood cancers had response
rates > 80 %, and more than half of
study participants experienced complete remission (1).