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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Mem Lang. 2009 Apr 1;60(3):329–350. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2008.12.002.

Table 6.

95% confidence intervals comparing error rates across different experimental conditions and error typesa

Spoken recall – reading Typed recall – reading Typed recall – spoken recall Recognition – reading Spoken recall – recognition Typed recall – recognition
Serial recall Difference 0.50 0.57 0.07 0.05 0.45 0.52
Error rate 95% CI ± 0.07 95% CI ± 0.08 95% CI ± 0.10 95% CI ± 0.06 95% CI ± 0.08 95% CI ± 0.09
 Substitutions
  Noncontextual
Phoneme Difference −0.04 0.10 0.07
95% CI ± 0.03 95% CI ± 0.05 95% CI ± 0.05
Item Difference 0.00 0.00 0.00
  Contextual
Phoneme Difference 0.18 0.17 −0.01
95% CI ± 0.06 95% CI ± 0.07 95% CI ± 0.08
Item Difference 0.16 0.10 −0.06
95% CI ± 0.06 95% CI ± 0.06 95% CI ± 0.07
 Omissions
Phoneme Difference 0.01 0.01 0.00
95% CI ± 0.02 95% CI ± 0.02 95% CI ± 0.02
Item Difference 0.07 0.04 −0.03
95% CI ± 0.03 95% CI ± 0.03 95% CI ± 0.05
 Additions
Phoneme Difference 0.04 0.05 0.01
95% CI ± 0.03 95% CI ± 0.04 95% CI ± 0.05
Item Difference 0.00 0.00 0.00
a

Bold font indicates a significant difference between error rates (p < .05).