## 3 Results and Discussion
### Question 15 Distribution of Respondents  
Question 15 is substantively similar to Question 4. Question 4 asks about trusting computer analysis (without human involvement); Question 15 asks about trusting the computer-generated findings of that analysis (enough to publish them as a journal editor). An agreeing response (between agree-no preference and strongly agree) was indicated by 46% of respondents, while 29% had no preference and  
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c c c} \hline \hline
**Strongly** & \multirow{2}{*}{**Agree**} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**No**} & \multirow{2}{*}{**Disagree**} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**Strongly**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{**No**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{**Invalid**} \\
**Agree** & & & **Preference** & & & **Disagree** & **Response** & **Response** \\ \hline
5 & 10 & 39 & 40 & 41 & 21 & 44 & 5 & 19 & 5 & 1 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 13: Responses to the statement “I would trust a scientific finding that was arrived at by a computer program”.  
Figure 14: Graph of responses to the statement “I would trust a scientific finding that was arrived at by a computer program”.  
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c} \hline
**Agreement** & **\textless{}5** & **5–10** & **11–20** & **21–30** & **31+** \\ \hline
**Strongly Agree** & 7.41\% & 1.79\% & 5.13\% & 4.35\% & 7.14\% \\  & 2.47\% & 3.57\% & 5.13\% & 0.00\% & 7.14\% \\
**Agree** & 22.22\% & 26.79\% & 25.64\% & 30.43\% & 35.71\% \\  & 22.22\% & 5.36\% & 10.26\% & 13.04\% & 7.14\% \\
**No Preference** & 23.46\% & 39.29\% & 33.33\% & 30.43\% & 21.43\% \\  & 8.64\% & 14.29\% & 2.56\% & 4.35\% & 7.14\% \\
**Disagree** & 9.88\% & 5.36\% & 10.26\% & 17.39\% & 14.29\% \\  & 3.70\% & 0.00\% & 0.00\% & 0.00\% & 0.00\% \\
**Strongly Disagree** & 0.00\% & 3.57\% & 7.69\% & 0.00\% & 0.00\% \\ \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table}
Table 16: Correlation between years of experience and the statement “As an editor for a journal, I would publish an article with computer-generated findings”.  
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c c} \hline
**Agreement** & **\textless{}20** & **20–30** & **31–40** & **41–50** & **51–60** & **61–70** & **71+** \\ \hline
**Strongly Agree** & 0.00\% & 6.00\% & 3.77\% & 0.00\% & 12.50\% & 11.11\% & 16.67\% \\  & 100.00\% & 2.00\% & 1.89\% & 7.14\% & 0.00\% & 0.00\% & 16.67\% \\
**Agree** & 0.00\% & 21.00\% & 24.53\% & 28.57\% & 37.50\% & 22.22\% & 50.00\% \\  & 0.00\% & 21.00\% & 7.55\% & 7.14\% & 8.33\% & 11.11\% & 0.00\% \\
**No Preference** & 0.00\% & 28.00\% & 37.74\% & 32.14\% & 20.83\% & 33.33\% & 16.67\% \\  & 0.00\% & 11.00\% & 9.43\% & 0.00\% & 8.33\% & 0.00\% & 0.00\% \\
**Disagree** & 0.00\% & 9.00\% & 7.55\% & 17.86\% & 8.33\% & 11.11\% & 0.00\% \\  & 0.00\% & 1.00\% & 1.89\% & 3.57\% & 0.00\% & 0.00\% & 0.00\% \\
**Strongly Disagree** & 0.00\% & 1.00\% & 5.66\% & 3.57\% & 4.17\% & 11.11\% & 0.00\% \\ \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table}
Table 15: Correlation between age and the statement “As an editor for a journal, I would publish an article with computer-generated findings”.  
Figure 16: Graph of correlation between age and the statement “As an editor for a journal, I would publish an article with computer-generated findings”.