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Dr Martine Nurek

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer

Research Associate
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 3062m.nurek

 
 
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504Medical SchoolSt Mary's Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Nurek:2016:10.1371/journal.pone.0162562,
author = {Nurek, M and Kostopoulou, O},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0162562},
journal = {PLOS One},
title = {What You Find Depends on How You Measure It: Reactivity of Response Scales Measuring Predecisional Information Distortion in Medical Diagnosis},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162562},
volume = {11},
year = {2016}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - “Predecisional information distortion” occurs when decision makers evaluate new information in a way that is biased towards their leading option. The phenomenon is well established, as is the method typically used to measure it, termed “stepwise evolution of preference” (SEP). An inadequacy of this method has recently come to the fore: it measures distortion as the total advantage afforded a leading option over its competitor, and therefore it cannot differentiate between distortion to strengthen a leading option (“proleader” distortion) and distortion to weaken a trailing option (“antitrailer” distortion). To address this, recent research introduced new response scales to SEP. We explore whether and how these new response scales might influence the very proleader and antitrailer processes that they were designed to capture (“reactivity”). We used the SEP method with concurrent verbal reporting: fifty family physicians verbalized their thoughts as they evaluated patient symptoms and signs (“cues”) in relation to two competing diagnostic hypotheses. Twenty-five physicians evaluated each cue using the response scale traditional to SEP (a single response scale, returning a single measure of distortion); the other twenty-five did so using the response scales introduced in recent studies (two separate response scales, returning two separate measures of distortion: proleader and antitrailer). We measured proleader and antitrailer processes in verbalizations, and compared verbalizations in the single-scale and separate-scales groups. Response scales did not appear to affect proleader processes: the two groups of physicians were equally likely to bolster their leading diagnosis verbally. Response scales did, however, appear to affect antitrailer processes: the two groups denigrated their trailing diagnosis verbally to differing degrees. Our findings suggest that the response scales used to measure infor
AU  - Nurek,M
AU  - Kostopoulou,O
DO  - 10.1371/journal.pone.0162562
PY  - 2016///
SN  - 1932-6203
TI  - What You Find Depends on How You Measure It: Reactivity of Response Scales Measuring Predecisional Information Distortion in Medical Diagnosis
T2  - PLOS One
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162562
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/40670
VL  - 11
ER  -
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