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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 11.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2008 May;34(3):602–615. doi: 10.1037/0278-7393.34.3.602

Table 2.

Mean Within- and Between-Objects Error Correlations (With Standard Deviations in Parentheses)

Experiment Turn size Within-object error correlation Between-objects error correlation Powera
1 (n = 16) 70° .375 (.066) .369 (.035) .50
1 (n = 16) 200° .395 (.076) .386 (.069) .75
1 (n = 32) 70° and 200° .385 (.071) .378 (.055) .89
2 and 3 (n = 12) 70° and 200°b .430 (.117) .413 (.093) .42
All (n = 44) 70° and 200°c .398 (.087) .387 (.068) .94

Note. None of the comparisons showed significant differences. The n values refer to the number of correlation pairs used to calculate the means, and in the paired t tests, not the number of participants. Notice that these correlations are low by the standards of circular statistics, in which both positive and negative correlations are calculated, expressed on the scale 0 to 1, and the lower of the two is discarded (Batschelet, 1981).

a

Calculated as ability of one-tailed paired t test to detect medium effect sizes (Cohen's d = .5) at α = .05.

b

Post-disorientation turns only.

c

Combined data from pre- and post-disorientation turns.