The impact of normative argument quality variations on claim acceptance: empirical evidence from the US and the UK

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Table 1. Persuasiveness of evidence in function of quality, type, and nationality (significant differences between high- and low-quality within a national sample are indicated with different superscripts).

		American (n = 237)		British (n = 231)
Evidence quality	Evidence type	M	SD	M	SD
Expert	High-quality	0.21	0.75	0.29^a	0.73
	Low-quality	0.14	0.75	0.16^b	0.83
Statistical	High-quality	0.28	0.78	0.48^a	0.76
	Low-quality	0.19	0.76	0.10^b	0.83