Table 3 Respondent characteristics, IAT effect and explicit survey measures
From: Measuring the bias against low-income country research: an Implicit Association Test
| Â | IAT | Explicit survey | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent variables | N | % | Cohen’s d (95% CI) | % Agree | % Not agree |
Males | 83 | 25.86 | 0.61 (0.53, 0.69) | 25.61 | 74.39** |
Females | 225 | 70.09 | 0.55 (0.50, 0.60) | 48.42 | 51.58 |
 20–29 | 81 | 25.23 | 0.54 (0.46, 0.63) | 37.50 | 62.50 |
 30–39 | 119 | 37.07 | 0.53 (0.46, 0.59) | 41.18 | 58.82 |
 40–49 | 60 | 18.69 | 0.59 (0.50, 0.69) | 45.76 | 54.24 |
 50–59 | 34 | 10.59 | 0.62 (0.49, 0.75) | 40.62 | 59.38 |
 60+ | 16 | 4.98 | 0.75 (0.61, 0.89) | 56.25 | 43.75 |
Academic qualification only | 276 | 85.98 | 0.55 (0.51, 0.60) | 42.28 | 57.72 |
Clinical qualification only | 16 | 4.98 | 0.60 (0.42, 0.78) | 43.75 | 56.25 |
Clinical-Academic qualification | 18 | 5.61 | 0.69 (0.52, 0.87) | 55.56 | 44.44 |
US born | 146 | 46.79 | 0.57 (0.51, 0.63) | 45.07 | 54.93 |
Non-US born | 163 | 52.24 | 0.57 (0.51, 0.63) | 38.27 | 61.73 |
US lives | 180 | 57.32 | 0.56 (0.51, 0.62) | 48.59 | 51.41 |
Non-US lives | 127 | 40.45 | 0.57 (0.51, 0.63) | 33.33 | 66.67 |
Live and born in US | 176 | 54.83 | 0.56 (0.50, 0.62) | 40.23 | 59.77* |
Live and born in different countries | 138 | 42.99 | 0.58 (0.52, 0.64) | 45.93 | 54.07 |
Works at a University | 211 | 66.56 | 0.56 (0.51, 0.61) | 39.42 | 60.58 |
Does not work at a University | 106 | 33.44 | 0.58 (0.51, 0.64) | 48.08 | 51.92 |
Reads research daily | 146 | 45.91 | 0.56 (0.50, 0.63) | 41.78 | 58.22 |
Reads research less than daily | 172 | 54.09 | 0.57 (0.51, 0.63) | 43.11 | 56.89 |
Peer reviewer | 173 | 45.17 | 0.53 (0.47, 0.59) | 39.77 | 60.23 |
Not a peer reviewer | 145 | 53.89 | 0.61 (0.55, 0.66) | 45.77 | 54.23 |
IAT response categories | |||||
 Moderate pro-poor | 4 | 1.25 | −0.509 (−0.57, −0.45) | 100.00 | 0.00 |
 Slight pro-poor | 8 | 2.49 | −0.232 (−0.28, −0.19) | 37.50 | 62.50 |
 Neutral | 32 | 9.97 | 0.017 (−0.02, 0.05) | 34.38 | 65.62 |
 Slight pro-rich | 43 | 13.4 | 0.251 (0.232, 0.27) | 54.76 | 45.24 |
 Moderate pro-rich | 94 | 29.28 | 0.515 (0.50, 0.53) | 39.78 | 60.22 |
 Strong pro-rich | 67 | 20.87 | 0.748 (0.74, 0.76) | 47.69 | 52.31 |
 Very strong pro-rich | 73 | 22.74 | 1.038 (1.00, 1.07) | 34.72 | 65.28 |
Total | 321 | 100.00 | 0.57 (0.52, 0.61) | 42.41 | 57.59 |