Secondary outcome: awareness of the influences
A majority varying from 60.0% to 78.3% did not indicate awareness that their choice was trying to be influenced (pamphlets B–G). There was no clear difference between the answers to the neutral pamphlet (A), and the pamphlets containing a deliberate attempt at influencing the participants choice. The participants who found that the pamphlet tried to direct their choice could correctly locate the influences more often than not in pamphlets C, F and G, while almost none were able to correctly locate the influences in pamphlets B, D and E. See The number of participants indicating awareness of the influences and ability to correctly locate the influences, stratified for each pamphletNA = Not applicable.