Of sports and politics: Predicting category-specific retention of news events from demographic variables
Of sports and politics: Predicting category-specific retention of news events from demographic variables
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10.1080/09541440802708037
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2010-01-01
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Murre, Jaap M. J.
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Meeter, Martijn;Ochtman, Dirkjan J. C.;Murre, Jaap M. J.
许多逆行性遗忘症的测试都是关于新闻事件的问题。因此，了解正常成年人如何回答这些问题是很重要的。我们分析了12，913名参与者的新闻事件保留情况，这些参与者提供了基本的人口统计信息，随后回答了从数据库中随机抽样的新闻事件问题。我们调查了人口统计学变量是否可以预测从几个类别，如体育和商业新闻的摄入量和保留的差异。虽然人口统计学变量确实会影响新闻问题的总体表现，但对特定类别的差异影响甚微。性别影响对商业新闻问题的回答，年龄和教育程度影响对政治新闻问题的回答，教育程度也影响对科学新闻问题的回答。
Many tests of retrograde amnesia consist of questions on news events. It is therefore important to know how such questions are answered by normal adults. We analysed the retention of news events in a sample of 12,913 participants, who provided basic demographic information and subsequently answered questions about news events randomly sampled from a database. We investigated whether demographic variables could predict differences in the intake and retention of news from several categories, such as sports and business news. Although demographic variables did affect general performance on news questions, differential effects on specific categories were marginal. Gender influenced performance on questions about business news, both age and educational attainment affected performance on political news, and educational attainment also had an effect on performance on science news.