Child eyewitness researchers often bin age: Prevalence of the practice and recommendations for analyzing developmental trends.

Sierra A Bainter Tristan D Tibbe Zachary T Goodman Debra Ann Poole

Published in: Law and human behavior (2021)

Treating age as a continuous variable maximizes power to detect real differences without inflating the frequency of spurious results, thereby ensuring that policies regarding child eyewitnesses reflect developmental changes in children's needs and abilities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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