Results

First we will examine the correlations among the demographic variables. This will help us understand the structure of the subject community. Second, we will examine the responses to the attitude probes and compare them to Wiener's 1989 study. This will show how the pilots feel about automation. Third, we will examine the cross-correlations among the attitude probes. This will allow us to describe the structure of the set of attitude probes. Fourth, we will consider the correlations between the demographic variables and the individual attitude probes. This will show how the attitudes are distributed among the pilots. Finally, we return to the structure of the pilot population, this time on the basis of their responses to the attitude probes. We will compare the structure that is derived from the patterns of responses to the structure implied in the demographic variables. This will allow us to explore the possibility that there are groups of pilots who share certain attitude profiles.