Table 1.
Demographic and psychometric data
| Autism group (n = 69)
|
Control group (n = 72)
|
T | P | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | S.D. | Mean | S.D. | |||
| Children | ||||||
| Age | 11.08 | 2.95 | 11.76 | 2.99 | 1.37 | .17 |
| Education (years) | 5.01 | 3.05 | 5.85 | 3.06 | 1.56 | .12 |
| Verbal IQ | 103.65 | 14.77 | 103.75 | 8.90 | 0.05 | .96 |
| Performance IQ | 101.43 | 12.92 | 102.69 | 8.21 | 0.69 | .49 |
| Full scale IQ | 102.68 | 12.88 | 103.35 | 8.26 | 0.37 | .71 |
| Autism group (n = 77)
|
Control group (n = 107)
|
T | P | |||
| Mean | S.D. | Mean | S.D. | |||
|
| ||||||
| Adults | ||||||
| Age | 28.12 | 9.99 | 26.92 | 9.41 | 0.83 | .41 |
| Education (years) | 13.00 | 2.29 | 14.11 | 2.20 | 3.25 | .001 |
| Verbal IQ | 104.65 | 17.06 | 104.47 | 12.51 | 0.08 | .93 |
| Performance IQ | 96.27 | 13.18 | 104.10 | 13.36 | 3.95 | .00 |
| Full scale IQ | 100.99 | 14.92 | 104.64 | 13.24 | 1.75 | .08 |