You will receive a fixed payment of $0.30. Additionally, you can earn a bonus of up to $5.00. This bonus is awarded based on your performance on the task.

Please carefully read the following instructions before starting to work. Note that there will be an attention check. If you do not pass it, you are not eligible to participate in this task. To be eligible for payment, you have to perform all tasks within the next 2 hours.

At any point in time, you will be able to review previous instruction by clicking on "Click to review previous instructions" in the right top corner of your screen.

In the following, you will be asked to guess the performance of workers in a prior task. These other workers answered 20 questions on a test from the Armed Service Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB). Each question tested their aptitude in the following five categories: General Science, Arithmetic Reasoning, Math Knowledge, Mechanical Comprehension, and Assembling Objects.

After completing this test, participants were asked to describe their performance on the test. Workers had an incentive to provide favourable descriptions of their performance since their earnings depended on being perceived as high performers on the test.

Your task

Next, you will see 40 descriptions of the performance of these workers from a previous task on your screen. Based on the descriptions it is your task to guess:

1. How many questions did the worker get right on the test
2. What is the gender of the worker

Payment

You will receive your payment only if you complete the entire task. You receive $0.30 for participating in the task. In addition, you can receive a bonus of up to $5.00 depending on the accuracy of your guess.

To determine the bonus, we will randomly choose one out of the 40 rounds after you completed the task.

Number of correctly answered questions

For your prediction with respect to the number of correctly answered questions, payment depends on the deviation from the true number of correctly answered questions in the randomly determined round:

• If your answer deviates by 1 or less questions your bonus is $4.00.
• If your answer deviates by more than 1 and 2 or less questions your bonus is $2.
• If your answer deviates by more than 2 your bonus is $0.

Prediction of gender

You have to guess the chance that the worker is female. Your guess will be used to determine your chances of winning the bonus of 1$. Your chance of winning the bonus is set so that more accurate guesses lead to a higher chance of winning.

Your guess is a percentage probability from 0 to 100 – with 0 indicating a 0-out-of-100 chance that the gender of the worker is female and 100 indicating a 100-out-of-100 chance that the gender of the worker is female. The number you provide is called Your Guess. You choose Your Guess by clicking the response bar that will be shown on your screen. An example is displayed in figure 1. The width of the red part of the bar indicates your guess that the worker is female. The width of the blue part of the bar is 100 - Your Guess and represents your guess that the worker is male.

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