Pseudoscientific beliefs and psychopathological risks increase after COVID-19 social quarantine

Table 4 Means compassion using t test, Wilcoxon test and Bayes factors

Scales	t test (p values)	Wilcoxon (p values)	BF^a₁₀ (% error)	P(H₁\| D)	Cohen’s d^b
Pseudoscientific beliefs	− 14.172 p < 0.001	345.5 p < 0.001	3.357e+ 27 ≈ 36.125 (∼0)	0.97306*	− 1.074
Visual and auditory perception	−3.014 p = 0.003	4503.5 p = 0.118	6.603 (2.524%)	0.86847	−0.228
Touch perception	−14.382 p < 0.001	360.5 p < 0.001	1.324e+ 28 ≈ 31.6 (∼0)	0.96933*	−1.090
Olfactory perception	−17.382 p < 0.001	85.7 p < 0.001	2.865e+ 36 ≈ 43.788 (∼0)	0.97767*	−0.986
Taste perception	−13.982 p < 0.001	157.5 p < 0.001	9.861e+ 26 ≈ 52.805 (∼0)	0.98141*	−1.060
Cenesthetic perception	−16.596 p < 0.001	67 p < 0.001	2.006e+ 34 ≈ 39.453 (∼0)	0.97528*	−1.258
Paranoid experience	−24.435 p < 0.001	179.5 p < 0.001	2.867e+ 54 ≈ 61.793 (∼0)	0.98407*	−1.852
Positive dimension	−23.022 p < 0.001	∼0 p < 0.001	1.152e+ 51 ≈ 54.131 (∼0)	0.98186*	−1.745
Negative dimension	0.666 p = 0.507	6438.5 p = 0.678	0.105 (∼0)	0.09502	0.05
Depressive dimension	−22.736 p < 0.001	50 p < 0.001	2.289e+ 50 ≈ 56.222 (∼0)	0.98252*	−1.724

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