Table 2.

Children’s Final Interview Means and Standard Deviations for False Reports

	Interview repetition
	Biased interviewer						Control interviewer
	Single (n = 19)		Repeated (n = 18)		M (n = 37)		Single (n = 18)		Repeated (n = 20)		M (n = 38)
Dependent variable	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
Free-recall false implication
3-year-olds	0.10	0.32	0.10	0.32	0.10	0.31	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
5-year-olds	0.56	0.53	0.00	0.00	0.29	0.50	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Grand mean	0.32	0.48	0.06	0.24	0.19	0.40	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Direct question resistance
3-year-olds	2.60	5.06	6.60	6.62	4.60	6.09	6.75	3.88	9.80	6.97	8.44	5.86
5-year-olds	6.22	5.59	13.13	7.18	9.47	7.12	12.30	4.85	16.30	2.21	14.30	4.21
Grand mean	4.32	5.49	9.50	7.45	6.84	6.94	9.83	5.17	13.05	6.03	11.53	5.80

Note. The free-recall false implication variable was coded as 1 = yes and 0 = no to reflect whether the child implied in her or his final interview narrative that the man was present when the child played. The direct question resistance variable was coded to reflect the direct question number to which the child’s answer implied that the man was present when the child played; responses ranged from 1 (child indicated interacting with the man in response to the first question) to 17 (child never indicated having interacted with the man).