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. 2019 Nov 26;116(48):23885-23886.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1914509116. Epub 2019 Nov 12.

Reply to Mislavsky et al.: Sometimes people really are averse to experiments

Michelle N Meyer  1 , Patrick R Heck  2   3 , Geoffrey S Holtzman  4 , Stephen M Anderson  5 , William Cai  6 , Duncan J Watts  7   8   9 , Christopher F Chabris  3
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Reply to Mislavsky et al.: Sometimes people really are averse to experiments

Michelle N Meyer et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Simulation run using Mislavsky et al.’s R code. We modified their simulation—which they used to claim that there was no evidence for experiment aversion—by replacing the 3 weakest studies (“Basic Income,” “Health Worker Recruitment,” and “Teacher Well-being”) with 3 studies that found a large A/B effect (“Safety Checklist,” “Walk-In Clinic,” and “Best Drug”). We used the same input correlation (r = 0.33) that Mislavsky et al. obtained from 99 Amazon Mechanical Turk participants. The overall comparison (Far Right) now produces evidence of an A/B effect, where the mean of the worst arm (M = 3.61) is greater than (and outside the 95% CI limits of) the mean of the experiment (M = 3.31).
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