Precise Performance: Do Citizens Rely on Numerical Precision as a Cue of Confidence?
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Precise Performance : Do Citizens Rely on Numerical Precision as a Cue of Confidence? / Olsen, Asmus Leth.
Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen , 2018.Publikation: Working paper › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Precise Performance
T2 - Do Citizens Rely on Numerical Precision as a Cue of Confidence?
AU - Olsen, Asmus Leth
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Recent research suggest that precise numbers signal confidence and are more potent anchors.Political-administrative systems are often dominated by numerical information in order to evaluateperformance or set future goals. We conduct a set of experiments testing how well theprecision effect translates in political-administrative setting (n=1,505). The findings provide noclear convincing evidence of a precision effect. Citizens evaluation of performance goal numbersseem to be largely unaffected by the roundness or precision of a number. This is the caseeven if the numerical information is presented without any explicit political cues or are framedas non-manipulative expert judgments
AB - Recent research suggest that precise numbers signal confidence and are more potent anchors.Political-administrative systems are often dominated by numerical information in order to evaluateperformance or set future goals. We conduct a set of experiments testing how well theprecision effect translates in political-administrative setting (n=1,505). The findings provide noclear convincing evidence of a precision effect. Citizens evaluation of performance goal numbersseem to be largely unaffected by the roundness or precision of a number. This is the caseeven if the numerical information is presented without any explicit political cues or are framedas non-manipulative expert judgments
M3 - Working paper
BT - Precise Performance
PB - Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
ER -
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