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Research study · 2014

Beer and Organic Labels: Do Belgian Consumers Care?

Explore the published experiment and its available replication evidence.

Eline Poelmans · Poelmans2017

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01 / Human finding

What the study found

A reviewed summary is not available in this registry. Consult the published paper for the original finding.

Answer-key review: Not reviewed

02 / Experiment design

Who chose, and what varied

Country
Belgium
Human respondents
Not recorded
Attributes
6
Task
discrete choice

03 / Synthetic replication

Registry replication results

Current replication

Spearman rank correlation

Not measured

No current measurement is available in this registry.

Paper-era reference

2023 CLM mean Spearman ρ

Not measured

Historical results use their original estimator and reference. They are not a matched comparison with the current run.

Detailed replication evidence · 2026-11-03

Wrong direction on 8 of 20 effects, partial ranking (ρ = 0.61); sizes not comparable (the paper reports logit coefficients).

Use it to generate hypotheses to test with people; sizes need the paper's respondent data, and confirm the 8 reversed effects with people.

Inspect the measured run ↗

direction
fails
rank
mixed
size
not comparable

Supported uses

  • Nothing yet without human confirmation.

Limits to keep in view

  • Ranking close levels against each other; the order diverges from humans.
  • Decisions that hinge on the attributes whose direction flipped (listed below).
  • Effect sizes in the paper's units; only direction, rank and shape are compared.

Effects on a common scale

Human effects: logit coefficient. Synthetic effects are multiplied by the record’s calibration factor, k = 13.8682. Calibration aligns magnitude; it does not establish agreement in unadjusted effect sizes.

● Human   ◆ Calibrated synthetic · Lines show human 95% intervals where available.
-7.6307.63Type of beer: Table beerType of beer: Table beerType of beer: Pilsner beerType of beer: Pilsner beerType of beer: Beer of spontaneous fermentationType of beer: Beer of spontaneous fermentat…Type of beer: Fruit beerType of beer: Fruit beerType of beer: Trappist beerType of beer: Trappist beerType of beer: Abbey beerType of beer: Abbey beerType of beer: Pale aleType of beer: Pale aleType of beer: Small scale local beerType of beer: Small scale local beerColor: DarkColor: DarkColor: PaleColor: PaleCountry of production: UKCountry of production: UKCountry of production: BelgiumCountry of production: BelgiumOrganic label: Organic labelOrganic label: Organic labelPackaging: On tapPackaging: On tapPackaging: BottlePackaging: BottlePrice (continuous variable): 4 Euro for 6 portions of 25 cLPrice (continuous variable): 4 Euro for 6 p…Price (continuous variable): 6 Euro for 6 portions of 25 cLPrice (continuous variable): 6 Euro for 6 p…Price (continuous variable): 10 Euro for 6 portions of 25 cLPrice (continuous variable): 10 Euro for 6 …Price (continuous variable): 15 Euro for 6 portions of 25 cLPrice (continuous variable): 15 Euro for 6 …Price (continuous variable): 30 Euro for 6 portions of 25 cLPrice (continuous variable): 30 Euro for 6 …
Human and calibrated synthetic effects
Attribute / levelHumanHuman 95% half-widthCalibrated synthetic
Type of beer: Alcohol free beer (reference category) (reference)0.000Not measured0.000
Type of beer: Table beer1.533Not measured0.690
Type of beer: Pilsner beer1.887Not measured1.526
Type of beer: Beer of spontaneous fermentation2.378Not measured0.733
Type of beer: Fruit beer1.295Not measured-0.316
Type of beer: Trappist beer2.387Not measured1.823
Type of beer: Abbey beer2.493Not measured1.350
Type of beer: Pale ale1.556Not measured0.626
Type of beer: Small scale local beer2.792Not measured1.334
Color: Amber (reference category) (reference)0.000Not measured0.000
Color: Dark-0.115Not measured-0.913
Color: Pale0.129Not measured-0.883
Country of production: USA (reference category) (reference)0.000Not measured0.000
Country of production: UK-0.003Not measured0.325
Country of production: Belgium0.819Not measured6.939
Organic label: No organic label (reference category) (reference)0.000Not measured0.000
Organic label: Organic label0.086Not measured-1.002
Packaging: Can (reference category) (reference)0.000Not measured0.000
Packaging: On tap0.731Not measured-0.105
Packaging: Bottle0.758Not measured0.507
Price (continuous variable): 2 Euro for 6 portions of 25 cL (reference)0.000Not measured0.000
Price (continuous variable): 4 Euro for 6 portions of 25 cL-0.063Not measured0.163
Price (continuous variable): 6 Euro for 6 portions of 25 cL-0.126Not measured0.336
Price (continuous variable): 10 Euro for 6 portions of 25 cL-0.251Not measured0.064
Price (continuous variable): 15 Euro for 6 portions of 25 cL-0.408Not measured-0.343
Price (continuous variable): 30 Euro for 6 portions of 25 cL-0.879Not measured-0.709

Subgroups · screen, not a result

Split by gender: no significant difference between the groups, so there is nothing to compare

screen, not a result. Each row is the female group’s effect minus the male group’s, human in logit, simulated on the simulation’s own scale, so compare direction, not size. A Jev fast-small screen makes no comparison claim.

Sign agreement
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95% interval
no interval
Shuffle null
–
Shape ρ
–
Scale ratio
–
Respondents per group
GroupSimulated nPeople nρ vs paper
female174not given–
male176not given–
Group differences: female minus male
Attribute / levelPeople Δ (95%)SignificantSimulated Δ (own scale)Direction
Organic label: Organic label-0.11 ±0.34no+0.05 ±0.04not compared

Interval: Wilson 95% on the significant differences. Shuffle null: groups reassigned at random among the simulated respondents. Scored from screen run b4d6c5f8-d8ea-46b3-b4aa-19905f93fcaf, W&B score ↗.

04 / Evidence and limitations

Follow the evidence

Missing results mean unmeasured, not zero agreement.

  • missing parent paper url
  • missing canonical pdf
  • missing historic score
  • missing resolved wandb run
Measurement provenance

Registry revision: 648f40378e9c. Estimator: ols.