image: Estimated probabilities of perceiving the increase in the foreign immigration rate as “high” or “very high,” based on the Perception of immigration and depending on the Format. The red curve represents the 1-in-X format, and the black curve represents the percentage format.
Credit: Dickson et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Public perceptions of immigration growth rates vary by how they are presented, with "1 in 40" seeming like a bigger number than "2.5%", necessitating care in presentation of such information
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0310382
Article Title: Numerical format and public perception of foreign immigration growth rates
Author Countries: Italy
Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.
Journal
PLOS ONE
Article Title
Numerical format and public perception of foreign immigration growth rates
Article Publication Date
2-Oct-2024
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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.