Metadata – Variables and codes (Macchi & Zulato, 2021)

Study 1

Frame: 1 = Survival; 2 = Mortality
Gender: 1 = Female; 2 = Male
Course: 1 = Statistics; 2 = Medicine; 3 = Lay
Therapy (label = choice): 1 = Surgical; 2 = Radiant
Age: continuous variable

Study 2

Frame: 1 = Survival frame; 2 = Mortality frame
Gender: 1 = Female; 2 = Male
Condition: 1 = Cumulative; 2 = Progression
Therapy (label = choice) : 1 = Surgical; 2 = Radiant
Age: continuous variable

Study 3

Gender: 1 = Male; 2 = Female
Condition: 1 = Cumulative; 2 = Progression; 3 = Interval
Choice_tot (label = choice): 1 = Surgical; 2 = Radiant
Conti_tot (label = correctness): 0 = wrong; 1 = right
Age: continuous variable