Table 9.
Performance on Executive Functioning Tasks by Threshold of Exposure Grouping
Heavier exposure
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Light or no exposure
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Variable | n | Mean | SD | n | Mean | SD | Kruskal-Wallis test statistic |
Alcohol | |||||||
Tapping inhibition | 36 | 7.4 | 5.5 | 142 | 8.7 | 5.7 | 1.7 |
Category fluency | 46 | 4.8 | 3.4 | 213 | 5.3 | 3.3 | 1.0 |
Motor planning | 50 | 3.3 | 1.8 | 230 | 3.4 | 2.0 | 0.4 |
Cocaine | |||||||
Tapping inhibition | 50 | 7.8 | 5.9 | 128 | 8.7 | 5.6 | 1.7 |
Category fluency | 74 | 5.0 | 3.5 | 185 | 5.3 | 3.3 | 0.8 |
Motor planning | 69 | 3.6 | 2.0 | 211 | 3.4 | 2.0 | 0.5 |
Marijuana | |||||||
Tapping inhibition | 9 | 5.8 | 3.8 | 169 | 8.6 | 5.7 | 2.6* |
Category fluency | 11 | 5.5 | 3.8 | 248 | 5.2 | 3.4 | 0.03 |
Motor planning | 7 | 3.4 | 1.8 | 253 | 3.4 | 2 | 0.1 |
p < 0.10.