The folders in this directory contain the preregistration documents, Qualtrics files used to carry out the experiments, data collected, and R scripts used to analyze and construct figures for the manuscript "The bad thing about good advice: Understanding when and how advice exacerbates overconfidence" by Jack B. Soll, Asa B. Palley, and Christina A. Rader.

The folders and files contained therein are as follows:

Preregistrations
 - "Preregistrations.txt" is a file with links to the five preregistration documents for studies 1b, 1c, 2a, 2b, and 2c.

Surveys
 - Contains the six Qualtrics files that were used to run each of the studies 1a, 1b, 1c, 2a, 2b, and 2c. The survey files were exported from the Qualtrics survey platform as a .qsf file. To view an experiment file, open a Qualtrics account and import the file.

Data
 - "Data dictionary for consolidated data.pdf" is a description and guide to all of the variables in the data set.
 - "AllData.csv" contains all of the data in a comma-separated variable format.
 - "AllData.RData" contains all of the data stored as an R data set.

R code
 - "makeFigures.R" contains the R script needed to construct Figures 1 through 6 in the manuscript.
 - "HLMs.R" contains the R script needed to carry out the mixed-effects linear models in Table 4 and spotlight analyses in Table 5.



