{"pk":27430,"title":"The Cognitive Reflection Test: familiarity and predictive power in professionals","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The CRT is an increasingly well-known and used test of biassusceptibility. While alternatives are being developed, theoriginal remains in widespread use and this has led to itsbecoming increasingly familiar to psychology students(Stieger & Reips, 2016), resulting in inflated scores.Extending this work, we measure the effect of prior exposureto the CRT in a sample of oil industry professionals. Theseengineers and geoscientists completed the CRT, seven biastasks and rated their familiarity with all of these. Key resultswere that: familiarity increased CRT scores but tended not toreduce bias susceptibility; and industry personnel, evenwithout prior CRT exposure, scored very highly on the CRT -greatly reducing its predictive power. Conclusions are that thestandard CRT is not a useful tool for assessing biassusceptibility in highly numerate professionals – and doublyso when they have previously been exposed.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"cognitive reflection test; familiarity; predictivepower; bias; industry professionals."}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0mg0k0mg","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Matthew","middle_name":"Brian","last_name":"Welsh","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Adelaide","department":""},{"first_name":"Steve","middle_name":"H.","last_name":"Begg","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Adelaide","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27430/galley/17066/download/"}]}