Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39159376›Full record

ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Even laypeople use legalese.

Eric Martínez, Francis Mollica, Edward Gibson

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Eric MartínezUniversity of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL 60637.ORCID 0000-0003-2180-6268
Francis MollicaSchool of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-1008-5397
Edward GibsonDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0002-5912-883X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Whereas principles of communicative efficiency and legal doctrine dictate that laws be comprehensible to the common world, empirical evidence suggests legal documents are largely incomprehensible to lawyers and laypeople alike. Here, a corpus analysis (

Indexed as

LanguageAdultCommunicationComprehensionFemaleHumansMaleWritingempirical legal studiesexperimental jurisprudencelawlaw and cognitionpsycholinguistics

Identifiers

PMID39159376
PMCPMC11363274

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Registered trials

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