Table 4. Proportion of either-language benefit in cognitively healthy bilinguals who rated themselves as balanceda or unbalancedb bilinguals by preferred language of testing.
Self-Rated Balanced Bilinguals | |||||
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n | min | max | mean | SD | |
English-dominant | 7 | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.03 | 0.03 |
Spanish-dominant | 5 | 0.00 | 0.10 | 0.07 | 0.04 |
Self-Rated Unbalanced Bilinguals | |||||
n | min | max | mean | SD | |
English-dominant | 15 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
Spanish-dominant | 14 | 0.00 | 0.10 | 0.03 | 0.03 |
Balanced Bilinguals = Rated ability to speak Spanish and English as the same or up to a difference of 1 between languages on 1-7 scale
Unbalanced = Rated ability to speak Spanish and English as at least 2 or up to difference of 6 on a 1-7 scale