Do People Experience Cognitive Biases while Searching for Information?

Table 7

Relationship between Document Access Frequency and Concurrence between Post-search Answer and Document-suggested Answer

	Concurrence between post-search answer and document?
Access frequency	Yes	No
Retrospective analysis*
Once only (n=441)	306 (69.4%)	135 (30.6%)
More than once (n=156)	115 (73.7%)	41 (26.3%)
Prospective experiment†
Once only (n=583)	504 (86.4%)	79 (13.6%)
More than once (n=72)	63 (87.5%)	9 (12.5%)

↵* 1276 accessed documents excluded because subjects accessed only one document or a likelihood ratio could not be calculated for the document.
↵† 179 accessed documents excluded because subjects accessed only one document or a likelihood ratio could not be calculated for the document.

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