That, indeed, would seem to me to be the answer of this experiment to
the question as to the effect of voluntary attention upon certainty
in one's judgments. Every subject showed a tendency to have more
certainty in those judgments which were made about that aspect of the
field toward which his attention was directed. Yet, on the other hand,
this was a tendency only, one not strong enough to make it possible to
predict beforehand exactly how great a proportion of the judgments in
which he had the highest degree of confidence would be limited to that
field, or even to be sure in every case that the greater proportion of
those judgments would be so limited. The place of voluntary attention
has an influence upon the subject-matter of the judgments made with
certainty about a visual field just seen, but an influence of varying
and uncertain strength.
TABLE III
1 = % of mistakes in judgments of certainty (1).
2 = % of mistakes in judgments of certainty (2).
3 = % of mistakes in judgments of certainty (3).
4 = % of mistakes in judgments of certainty (4).
x = no judgments of that kind given.
1 2 3 4
Subject A (in giving shapes) (a) 7% 10% 0% 100%
(in giving colors) (b) 2 14 23 0
(in giving letters
and numerals) (c) 0 0 x x
Subject B (a) 2 10 10 0
(b) 3 6 20 25
(c) 4 50 0 x
Subject C (a) 1 8 10 0
(b) 4 14 14 0
(c) 1 0 16 0
Subject D (a) 3 4 0 16
(b) 1 6 0 0
(c) 5 0 0 0
Subject E (a) 2 10 25 50
(b) 1 33 40 0
(c) 0 0 0 0
Subject F (a) 1 25 7 25
(b) 4 15 29 26
(c) 3 0 0 x
Subject H (a) 3 6 5 0
(b) 6 2 15 15
(c) 4 0 0 20
TABLE IV
Label 1: General % of mistakes
in judgments
of certainty (1).
Label 2: % of mistakes in judgments
of certainty (1) about
attended-to groups.
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