2.2.5. Deviations from Pre-Registration
Although the current study matched the pre-registration very closely, some deviations are worth noting. First, we introduced an additional hypothesis predicting that participants receiving complex descriptions will rate the matching explanatory models as more believable than those receiving simple descriptions. Second, our pre-registered sample size was 420 participants, with 60 in each condition; however, our final sample consisted of 425 participants, with only two out of the seven conditions consisting of 60 participants (