Durably Reducing Transphobia: A Field Experiment on Door-to-Door Canvassing
Science, 2016 · paper · Political science
The text provided is the end of an unrelated neuroscience article on predicting brain activity from resting-state scans, not the transphobia canvassing paper. It does not show what the titled study found, so it can't be summarized reliably.
Checked: PDF from scunning.com, fetched 5 Oct 2026. Page numbers are those of that PDF.
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Substance Abstract says "56 canvassers went door to door encouraging active perspective-taking with 501 voters", but the body defines 501 as "individuals who came to their doors in either condition (n = 501)", which includes placebo subjects who had a recycling conversation.
- p. 1 Abstract
canvassers went door to door encouraging active perspective-taking with 501 voters
- p. 4 Left column, first paragraph
doors in either condition (n = 501)
- p. 3 Right column, design paragraph
a placebo group targeted with a conversation about recycling (n = 912)
- p. 4 Design paragraph, first column
we recruited individuals who came to their doors in either condition (n = 501)
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Judge's note: Read p1 abstract and p3-p4 design paragraph on the page images. Randomisation was 913 treatment and 912 placebo; n = 501 is those reached at the door in both arms. The placebo arm did not receive perspective-taking, so the number who did must be below 501. I found no statement in the article that reconciles the two uses. The treatment-arm complier count is not in the article (supplement not among the files), so the authors must supply the correct figure.
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Reference or label Reference 32 reads "C. Panagopoulos, Party Polit. 22, 179–190 (2015)", pairing volume 22 with the year 2015.
- p. 5 Reference 32
C. Panagopoulos, Party Polit. 22, 179–190 (2015).
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Judge's note: Rests on outside knowledge: that Party Politics volume 22 is the 2016 volume, with 2015 being the online-first year. The entry reads as quoted on the p5 image. Nothing in the files can confirm the true volume and year pairing, so this is a query for the authors.
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Wording The same claim about influential theories of durable prejudice is cited as "to change thereafter (4–6)" in the introduction and "resistant to change (4–7)" in the discussion; ref. 7 is cited in the introduction only for media interventions that "usually fail to reduce prejudiced attitudes (7)".
- p. 1 Introduction, first paragraph
to change thereafter (4–6)
- p. 1 Introduction, first paragraph
ally fail to reduce prejudiced attitudes (7)
- p. 4 Discussion, third column
change (4–7), it is surprising that brief personal
- p. 4 Discussion, first paragraph
prejudiced attitudes as highly durable and resistant to change (4–7)
Judge's note: Checked both passages on the p1 and p4 images and ref. 7 on p5 (E. L. Paluck, J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 96, 574–587 (2009)). The two citation ranges do differ for the same statement. Adding ref. 7 in the discussion could be deliberate, as supporting evidence of durability, so either form could be legitimate.
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Wording Fig. 1 legend labels the canvasser subgroup "Transgender/Gender Non-Conforming Only", while the caption and text describe it as "transgender" ("Both transgender and nontransgender canvassers"; "as transgender (n = 15) or as nontransgender (n = 41)").
- p. 2 Fig. 1 legend
Transgender/Gender Non-Conforming Only
- p. 2 Fig. 1 caption
Both transgender and nontransgender canvassers produced large and lasting increases in tolerance.
- p. 3 Right column
fied themselves to canvass leaders as transgender (n = 15) or as nontransgender (n = 41)
Judge's note: The legend is visible on the p2 page image and reads "Transgender/Gender Non-Conforming Only". The caption, abstract and p3 text use only "transgender". The article does not say that the text term is shorthand for the broader category. This is a minor labelling inconsistency; the supplement, which is not among the files, may define the group.
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Wording The text says the LaCour and Green article "appeared in Science last year (27, 28)", but ref. 27 is dated 2014 ("Science 346, 1366–1369 (2014)") and this article is in the 8 April 2016 issue.
- p. 4 Right column, 'On an applied level' paragraph
Los Angeles LGBT Center, appeared in Science last year (27, 28)
- p. 5 Reference 27
M. J. LaCour, D. P. Green, Science 346, 1366–1369 (2014).
- p. 4 Discussion, column 3
appeared in Science last year (27, 28)
- p. 5 Reference 27
Science 346, 1366–1369 (2014)
Judge's note: Checked the p4 text and refs 27 and 28 on p5. The issue date is 8 April 2016 (submitted 30 November 2015, accepted 17 February 2016). Ref. 27 is dated 2014; only the retraction notice (ref. 28) is 2015. The phrase was correct at submission and is stale as published. The evident fix is "in 2014".
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Typo The same paragraph uses the plural "patterns qualify the ads’ effect" and then the singular "ad’s effect faded, whereas the canvassing" for the same stimulus.
- p. 4 Middle column, attack-ad paragraph
patterns qualify the ads’ effect
- p. 4 Middle column, attack-ad paragraph
ad’s effect faded, whereas the canvassing
Judge's note: Both forms are visible in the middle column of the p4 image. Each subject saw "one of three such ads", so either form is defensible. The inconsistency is cosmetic and does not change the meaning.
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Typo Reference 10 gives the first author as "C. V. Laar, S. Levin, S. Sinclair, J. Sidanius, J. Exp. Soc. Psychol.", which appears to turn the surname Van Laar into an initial.
- p. 5 Reference 10
C. V. Laar, S. Levin, S. Sinclair, J. Sidanius, J. Exp. Soc. Psychol.
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Judge's note: Rests on outside knowledge: that the first author of this 2005 J. Exp. Soc. Psychol. article is C. Van Laar. The entry reads "C. V. Laar" on the p5 image. The files cannot confirm the author's actual name.
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