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Field
Intervention (Hidden)
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Before
Participants will receive information about a hypothetical fertility clinic and 3 hypothetical patients. They are told that they will be provided information about these circumstances and asked questions about them. A subset of these questions are eligible for random selection for payment (if correct).
Participants will be randomly assigned into 3 groups: control, promotional, and testimonial. The control group will receive a generic introduction to the clinic, with a logo and a screen about the three doctors in the practice. The promotional group's screens involves promotional speech about the quality of the services provided. The testimonial group's screens involve 2 testimonials, one of a family generically discussing how their experience was better than in other clinics, the other saying that despite their difficult diagnosis they were able to conceive.
Participants also randomly receive either a simple disclosure or a detailed disclosure. Both discuss (for each of the 3 hypothetical patients' conditions) the potential success of fertility treatment. The simple disclosure describes this in qualitative terms, while the detailed disclosure uses more probabilities.
Participants are then asked an objective question about the disclosed information (which is eligible to be drawn for payment) and three subjective questions:
1) is the patient's likelihood of a live birth within a year of egg retrieval above or below a certain probability threshold
2) using a slider, indicate what you believe is the patient's probability
3) if the patient found out that their probability was __, did the participant think the patient received adequate information?
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After
Participants will receive information about a hypothetical fertility clinic and 3 hypothetical patients. They are told that they will be provided information about these circumstances and asked questions about them. A subset of these questions are eligible for random selection for payment (if correct).
Participants will be randomly assigned into 3 groups: control, promotional, and testimonial. The control group will receive a generic introduction to the clinic, with a logo and a screen about the three doctors in the practice. The promotional group's screens involves promotional speech about the quality of the services provided. The testimonial group's screens involve 2 testimonials, one of a family generically discussing how their experience was better than in other clinics, the other saying that despite their difficult diagnosis they were able to conceive.
Participants also randomly receive either a simple disclosure or a detailed disclosure. Both discuss (for each of the 3 hypothetical patients' conditions) the potential success of fertility treatment. The simple disclosure describes this in qualitative terms, while the detailed disclosure uses more probabilities.
Participants are then asked several questions:
1) is the patient's likelihood of a live birth within a year of egg retrieval above or below a certain probability threshold. (this question is eligible to be drawn for payment if correct).
2) using a slider, indicate what you believe is the patient's probability
3) if the patient found out that their probability was __, did the participant think the patient received adequate information?
Participants will also be asked whether, if the current implantation fails, they would be willing to pay to attempt another round. They are told that the outcome is simulated with true probabilities and will be paid if the simulation reports a successful outcome.
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