Measuring Numeracy without a Math Test: Development of the Subjective Numeracy Scale

By A. Fagerlin, B. Zikmund‐Fisher, P. Ubel, Aleksandra V. Janković, Holly Derry, Dylan M. Smith. Medical decision making, 2007

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Subfields: Family Practice, General Health Professions, Statistics and Probability

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Citations in the corpus

• Risk perceptions, preferences and management strategies: evidence from a case study using German livestock farmers (2017, methodology): “We used a set of seven self- assessment questions on numerical aptitude and preferences for numbers, adapted from Fagerlin et al. (2007) to measure the farmers’ subjective numeracy and ability to process probabilistic information.”
• Are there gender differences in cognitive reflection? Invariance and differences related to mathematics (2018, background): “problematic to interpret this result, because the subjective numeracy scale combines the measurement of participants’ self-reported ability and their preference to work with numbers (Fagerlin et al., 2007).”
• Measuring Risk Literacy: The Berlin Numeracy Test (2012, methodology): “In this study, Paolacci and colleagues assessed numer-acy using the subjective numeracy scale (Fagerlin et al., 2007), which is known to correlate with the objective Lipkus et al. (2001) test (Paolacci et al., 2010).”
• The promise of Mechanical Turk: how online labor markets can help theorists run behavioral experiments. (2012, background): “They found no difference across experiments in either attentiveness (measured by correctly answering a trivial question) nor basic numeracy skills (measured by the Subjective Numeracy Scale (Fagerlin et al., 2007)).”
• Running experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk (2010, methodology): “After completing these three tasks, subjects completed the Subjective Numeracy Scale (SNS; Fagerlin et al. 2007).”
• The Decision Making Individual Differences Inventory and guidelines for the study of individual differences in judgment and decision-making research (2011, background): “Also included under specific measures of ability are subjective measures of ability, such as the Subjective Numeracy Scale (SNS; Fagerlin et al., 2007).”