datequiz: Data from the Exploring Social Metacognition Dates Task
In oxacclab/esmData: Exploring Social Metacognition Data

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Data collected from a series of behavioural psychological experiments in which participants made estimates about when events occurred and then updated those estimates based on advice.

datequiz

A tibble with 478 rows and 14 variables:

url: URL of the study analysis document relative to the web project root directory
study: name of the study for in which the data were collected
version: version of the study in which the data were collected
table: the kind of data held
data: tibble containing the actual data. Columns have a label attr giving further details
N: number of participants in the data
description: short description of the study
preregistration: URL of the study preregistration document, if available
experiment_url: URL of the experiment relative to the web project root directory
completeExperiment: whether the data constitute a complete experiment
partialExperiment: whether the data constitute a complete experiment when combined with appropriate other data (e.g. for studies split across versions)
replication: whether the study is an exact replication of a previous study in the dataset
manipulationOK: whether the study manipulation was successful (in form rather than function - ineffective but accurately delivered manipulations are 'OK')

The task has two versions, a continuous (timeline) version and a binary version. In the timeline version, participants place markers of various widths on a timeline stretching from 1890 to 2010 to identify when a series of events took place. Events are presented one at a time, and for each event participants drop one of up to three markers of different widths (thinner markers are worth more points) on the timeline to indicate their initial estimate of when the event occurred, before seeing a marker placed by an advisor and getting the opportunity to alter their original marker's position in making their final decision.

In the binary version of the task, participants have two vertical bars, one on the left of the screen labelled 'before', and one on the right labelled 'after'. Participants see an event at the top of the screen alongside an 'anchor date'. Participants then decide which bar to select for their answer, 'before' or 'after', and click a vertical position on the bar to represent their confidence in the answer (the higher up the bar they click, the more confidence they report). Participants then see either binary advice (which identifies one or other bar as the advisor's estimate) or, in other experiments, graduated advice (which indicates a height on a bar to show the advisor's confidence in their advice). Participants then select a location on one of the bars which represents their final decision.

This dataset contains many experiments on this theme, as well as metadata which provides basic information about each individual study. A common manipulation is the presence or absence of feedback during the familiarity phase in which participants are introduced to their advisors.

https://acclab.psy.ox.ac.uk/~mj221/ESM/data/public/

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