Sentence examples for by a ceiling effect from inspiring English sources

First, while our comparison groups played a valuable role in supporting previously established differences in biology attitudes between non science majors and science majors (see Knight and Smith, 2010), the attitude changes over time were more visible for the nonmajors than the majors, the latter being rendered less effective possibly by a ceiling effect.

Experiment 2 evaluated whether a process of fear incubation, developed during the retention interval but obscured by a ceiling effect, produced the attenuation of LI.

This raises the question: was learning of the new cues masked by a ceiling effect due to strong overall bias?

McKiernan et al. [23], explained the non-parametric nature of the decrease during cognitive task performance by a "ceiling effect" for the moderate and difficult condition.

The absence of a sex difference for prosody as a target in our study could be due to the low task difficulty, indicated by a ceiling effect in performance.

The lack of improvement could be explained by a "ceiling effect" on the shape matching criterion, due to expert ability of adults and by different experimental designs (the authors [12] hide the model trajectory during recall phase, thereby suppressing any visual help).

This might be explained by either a ceiling effect or by the nature of the tasks that were used [10].

This manipulation could work by removing a ceiling effect on the outcome, as proposed by Cheng (1997).

However, in half of studies in which the SD was given rather than calculated by us, a ceiling effect was found.

Students could have been hesitant to select statements with extreme adjectives (strongly agree/disagree) on the Likert scale (Pollack et al. 1990), creating a ceiling effect by decreasing the number of individuals with high MATE scores.

It is possible that once the majority of participants in a sample are overweight (here, 78%), there is no further moderation of food-response inhibition training effects by BMI (i.e. a ceiling effect).