He reeled off a litany of statistics that sounded pretty persuasive: better academic test scores than most states, rising income levels, a higher penetration of health insurance, more stability in housing prices than in most of the country.
Prosecutors found his story, backed by DNA tests, persuasive.
When the psychologists Melanie Green and Timothy Brock decided to test the persuasive power of narrative, they found that the more a story transported us into its world, the more we were likely to believe it — even if some details didn't quite mesh.
If it involves opinions, you will have to put your persuasive skills to the test, but listen to their view, maybe they were right after all.
To get a reliable result, it is persuasive to combine multiple tests based on different assumptions for the dataset, and only the outliers supported by multiple tests are considered as reliable candidates (Simonson et al., 2010; Zhao et al., 2013).
Obama's persuasive abilities have been tested with the Iranians, the International Olympic Committee and a Democratic-controlled Congress that has yet to deliver on his plans for healthcare or climate change.
It never may set its own tests, however persuasive be its usages.
An early test of how persuasive the legal precedent has become will be the appeal by the former president of Liberia Charles Taylor, who was sentenced to 50 years in prison last summer.
But we must be very careful about the tests we choose, and the California findings give us persuasive reasons to move toward achievement tests.
The tests could still be persuasive, though.
