How do we assign participants to groups?

C. Mixed assignment to groups - Winter, Carlucci, Schwartz-I've talked before about a study I did where I altered the order of homicide instructions I gave to jurors. Usually, the courts present charges in a "severe to less severe" order

1^stDegree Murder, 2^ndDegree, Manslaughter-I wondered whether the order of charges impacted jurors

That is, are jurors more likely to find guilt if they read a 1^stdegree murder charge first, followed by 2^nddegree, and then manslaughter compared to those who saw the manslaughter charge first?

Mixed assignment to groups - Winter, Carlucci, Schwartz-Independent (Between-subjects)

IV: Presentation of jury instructions (2 levels)

Step-Down Instructions (1^st, 2^nd, then Manslaughter)

Step-Up Instructions (Manslaughter, 2^nd, then 1^st)-

Correlated (Within-subjects) IV: Jury decisions both pre- and post-deliberation

Pre-Deliberation Verdict

Post-Deliberation Verdict

Mixed assignment to groups - Winter, Carlucci, Schwartz-My dependent variable was sentence confidence, which I suspected might change from pre- to post-deliberation depending on the order of the jury instructions

Mixed assignment to groups - Winter, Carlucci, Schwartz-This is a listing of our 2 X 2 research study conditions ...

		Individual Verdict (correlated / within)
		Before Deliberation	After Deliberation
Charges (between)	Step-Down	SD Before	SD After
Step-Up	SU Before	SU After

Mixed assignment to groups - Winter, Carlucci, Schwartz-This is what we found. tell me what this means!

1. Consider the chart above. What did Winter, Carlucci, and Schwartz find? For this Pause Problem, make sure to identify which variable is correlated, which is independent, and then interpret the findings.