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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Forensic Sci. 2008 Nov 29;54(1):220–231. doi: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2008.00927.x

TABLE 1.

Demographics of participants.

All Subjects
Envelope
Disk
Chi-Square or t-Test
Complete Quality Validated Complete Quality Validated Complete Quality Validated C–C Q–Q V–V Statistics
Ethnicity
  C 35 27 20 22 18 14 13 9 6 6.02 2.86 0.60 Chi-square
  A 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.05 0.24 0.74 p-value
  AA 12 8 5 3 3 2 9 5 3
Object taken
  Took ring 26 21 16 14 11 10 12 10 6 0.00 1.62 1.21 Chi-square
  Took watch 22 15 9 12 11 6 10 4 3 0.96 0.20 0.27 p-value
Ages
  Avg. age 30.8 30.8 31.6 31.2 31.3 32.6 30.2 29.9 29.8 −0.34 −0.40 −0.65 t-value
  SD 9.6 10.0 10.4 10.0 10.8 11.4 9.3 8.9 8.6 0.73 0.69 0.52 p-value
  Low 18 18 18 18 18 18 19 19 19
  High 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 44 43
Gender
  M 25 18 12 13 10 7 12 8 5 0.10 0.47 0.32 Chi-square
  F 23 18 13 13 12 9 10 6 4 0.75 0.49 0.57 p-value
Employment
  FT 5 3 2 1 0 0 4 3 2 4.15 6.14 2.13 Chi-square
  FT-MUSC 19 14 10 11 9 7 8 5 3 0.39 0.19 0.55 p-value
  PT 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0
  PT-MUSC 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0
  Student 22 17 11 12 11 7 10 6 4
Handedness
  L 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 0.20 0.04 0.18 Chi-square
  R 45 33 22 24 20 14 21 13 8 0.65 0.84 0.67 p-value
Education
  Avg. years 16.0 15.9 15.7 15.9 16.0 15.7 16.2 15.7 15.9 0.51 −0.42 0.29 t-value
  SD 2.0 2.0 1.9 2.2 2.1 1.9 1.8 1.8 2.0 0.62 0.68 0.78 p-value
  Min 12 12 12 13.0 13.0 13.0 12 12 12
  Max 20.5 20.5 18 20.5 20.5 18.0 20 18 18
Time to scan
  Avg. time 78.9 86.9 68.5 56.8 60.4 51.5 105.0 128.6 98.7 2.12 2.44 1.60 t-value
  SD 81.3 87.2 72.9 66.4 66.6 57.6 90.6 101.2 90.2 0.04 0.02 0.12 p-value
  Min 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 5.5 24.0 24.0
  Max 312.0 312.0 312.0 216.0 216.0 216.0 312.0 312.0 312.0

Under ethnicity, C, A, and AA represents Caucasian, Asian, and African-American. Object taken reflects the number of subjects who chose to take a ring or a watch. M and F represents male and female. FT, FT-MUSC, PT, PT-MUSC, and student represents full-time worker, full-time at MUSC, part-time, part-time at MUSC, and full-time student, respectively. L and R represent left and right. Education is the number of years the person has spent in school. Time to scan is from the time they met with ELG for Visit 2 to the time of their fMRI scan. Statistical comparisons were made between the Complete No-crime versus Complete Mock-crime (C–C), Quality No-crime versus Quality Mock-crime (Q–Q), and Validation No-crime versus Validation Mock-crime (V–V) groups using either a Chi-square test or a two-sample two-way t-test. Statistically significant t-values and Chi-square values are shown highlighted in bold. The only significant differences were for ethnicity in the C–C comparison and time to scan for the C–C and Q–Q comparisons.