That is, we found that the answers to the questions asked elicited detailed recounts of the Informants' recollections of the events surrounding the precipitation of the project and the MEL process, their place in it as protagonists, and what they learned as a result, which followed a ...
Additionally, the Consistency Ratio (CR) can be computed from the matrices to examine whether the participants’ answers are random. Following Saaty, the CR has to be ≤ 0.1. Other authors suggested a CR ≤ 0.2, but the threshold value is not defined consistently [8, 25]. Higher...
Floor effects occur instead when a respondent in the treatment group answers Yi = 1 even if he/she would have replied Yi = 0. If the list experiment satisfies (a), (b) and (c), then support for the sensitive item can be obtained by simply using a difference-in-means ...
In another embodiment, the invention provides a method for determining if a subject is deceptive by asking the subject one or more questions while the subject is in an MRI scanner; recording the question and the response; and providing a client with a report of the statistical probability of w...
A control question test paradigm was utilized in which the subjects would give both truthful and deceptive answers about the location of the money while the BOLD fMRI scans were being acquired. Through the video goggles, the subjects were shown prompt screens and then pictures of the objects in...
In other embodiments, the invention provides methods which employ both truthful and deceptive answers to questions of interest. In an exemplary method, the subject is asked to answer the question of interest at least once truthfully and the brain activity of the subject is measured during the trut...