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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Dec 4.
Published in final edited form as: Exp Clin Psychopharmacol. 2023 Mar 23;31(5):908–919. doi: 10.1037/pha0000645

Table 4.

Demographic characteristics for the full Study 2 sample and as a function of performance on the delay discounting attention checks (n and %; or median and first and third quartiles).

DD Attention Check Performance
Variable Full Sample
N = 430
Failed Any
n = 48
Passed Both
n = 382
p
Age 38 (31 – 48) 36 (31 - 41) 38 (31 – 49) 0.122
Sex 0.065
Male 214 (49.8%) 30 (62.5 %) 184 (48.2 %)
Female 213 (49.5%) 17 (35.4 %) 196 (51.3 %)
N/A 3 (0.7%) 1 (2.1 %) 2 (0.5 %)
Race 0.350
White 335 (77.9%) 37 (77.1 %) 298 (78 %)
Black/African American 32 (7.4%) 6 (12.5 %) 26 (6.8 %)
Asian 36 (8.4%) 4 (8.3%) 32 (8.4%)
Other 27 (6.3%) 1 (2.1%) 26 (6.8%)
N/A 0 (0 %) 0 (0 %) 0 (0 %)
Ethnicity 0.436
Hispanic/LatinX 41 (9.5%) 6 (12.5 %) 35 (9.2 %)
Not Hispanic/LatinX 389 (90.5%) 42 (87.5 %) 347 (90.8 %)
N/A 0 (0 %) 0 (0 %) 0 (0 %)
Yearly Income 0.678
$29,999 or less 130 (30.2%) 10 (20.8%) 120 (31.4%)
$30,000 - $59,999 150 (34.9%) 19 (39.6%) 131 (34.3%)
$60,000-$89.999 68 (15.8%) 8 (16.7%) 60 (15.7%)
$90,000-$119,999 40 (9.3%) 6 (12.5%) 34 (8.9%)
$120,000 or more 31 (7.2%) 4 (8.3%) 27 (7.1%)
N/A 11 (2.6%) 1 (2.1%) 10 (2.6%)
Education (Highest Degree) 0.144
Less than high school 4 (0.9%) 0 (0%) 4 (1.0%)
High school 49 (11.4%) 2 (4.2%) 47 (12.3%)
Some college (no degree) 77 (17.9%) 4 (8.3%) 73 (19.1%)
Associate 51 (11.9%) 7 (14.6%) 44 (11.5%)
Bachelor's 182 (42.3%) 24 (50.0%) 158 (41.4%)
Master's 58 (13.5%) 9 (18.8%) 49 (12.8%)
Doctoral 8 (1.9%) 2 (4.2%) 6 (1.6%)
Professional (JD, MD) 1 (0.2%) 0 (0%) 1 (0.3%)
N/A 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)

Note. Age is rounded to the nearest year. Descriptive statistics for income are shown in 30K categories for brevity, but were assessed in $15K-increment categories.