While mentors were asked to base their responses on each student-mentor pairing, it is possible that some participants' views are over-represented in the data.
This replicates previous findings that medial rostral PFC activation may be observed in contrasts between stimulus-oriented conditions, where participants base their responses on perceptual information, versus stimulus-independent conditions, where participants must base their responses on internally generated information (Gilbert et al. 2005, 2007).
It has been shown that patients' response shifts may bias results of clinical studies if the internal criteria or metric they base their responses on change in the time interval between the two responses used to calculate change [ 1- 3].
Parents are asked to base their responses on their usual dietary behaviors over the previous 12 months, reporting their habitual intake of 18 food items grouped in 3 food categories.
Stakeholders that contributed to our study were asked to base their responses on their countries specificities, while in the international exercise participants were asked to consider the global scenario.
To minimise recall bias, we asked data collectors to complete the questionnaire during the field work period and to base their responses on their experience of interviewing the most recent eligible mother.
In future abstract competitions, defining criteria more objectively so that reviewers can base their responses on empirical evidence may lead to increased consistency of scoring and, presumably, increased fairness to submitters.
The second model (the perceptual understanding model) argues that they base their responses on perceptual characteristics of the problem, resulting in poor performance when the unsupported food item is located closer to them than the supported one, is larger than the supported one, or is placed on a discontinuous sheet (i.e., beyond the gap).
