Instructional manipulation check

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Blue-dot task, a check designed to detect participants who fail to read the instructions. After Oppenheimer et al.[1]

An instructional

statistical power of an experiment. The tool was developed by Oppenheimer et al.[1]

Eliminating random responses this way before performing

data manipulation, but should be duly mentioned in publications reporting on the outcome of the experiment in question.[3]

Blue-dot task

Among several forms an IMC can take, a popular one is the so-called blue-dot task,

undergraduate participants, approximately 7% failed this task.[1]

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