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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Cogn. 2008 Nov 5;69(3):451–459. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2008.09.004

Table 3.

Mental Rotations Test

Women (N=38) Men (N=38) t(p)*
Mean (S.D.) Mean (S.D.)
# of Items Completed 27.1 (7.9) 33.1 (7.0) 3.465 (0.001)**
Percent Correct 53.0 (18.9) 66.0 (19.2) 2.965 (0.004)**

Means and standard deviations by sex for results on the Mental Rotations Test (Vandenburg & Kuse, 1978), including the total number of items out of 40 that were completed and the percent of the total that were answered correctly. Independent samples t-tests reveal that men completed significantly more items and answered more items correctly.

*

d.f. 74;

**

p<0.005.