Table 1.

Group comparisons for playmate and play style preferences

Variables	Males		Females				Sex difference
	Unaffected M (SD)	CAH M (SD)	Unaffected M (SD)	CAH M (SD)	p	d	p	d
	N=17	N=31	N=26	N=26
Playmate preference a	2.18 (2.48)	2.71 (3.47)	10.96 (3.11)	7.15(4.27)	.001	1.03	.000	3.07
Play style preferencesb	2.41 (1.91)	3.32 (1.97)	7.58 (2.56)	4.89 (2.44)	.000	1.08	.000	2.24
Toy choicec	0.18 (0.39)	0.29 (0.64)	2.77 (1.24)	1.07 (1.30)	.000	1.34	.000	2.87
Activity levelc	1.47 (1.07)	1.61 (.096)	2.15 (0.97)	1.78 (0.80)	.075	0.42	.089	0.67
Rough-and-tumblec	0.76 (0.97)	1.42 (1.12)	2.65 (1.20)	2.04 (1.22)	.036	0.50	.000	1.70

Note: Higher scores are more female-typical; P values are for simple effects F tests, one-tailed according to directional hypotheses, with age as a covariate; Effect sizes (d) do not control for age. The sex differences reported here are for unaffected children only.

^aRange 0 – 14

^bRange 0 – 12

^cRange 0 – 4