. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 1.

Published in final edited form as: Mem Cognit. 2011 Jul;39(5):873–883. doi: 10.3758/s13421-010-0062-z

Table 4.

Mean (standard deviation) reading rate, measured in words read per second, of High Proficiency, Low Proficiency, and Overall for Readers with High versus Low Prior Knowledge (PK).

	Low PK	High PK
Low Proficiency	2.01 (.63)	2.11 (.68) ^†
High Proficiency	2.18 (.53)	2.32 (.55)^*
Overall	2.04 (.58)	2.14 (.60)^*

p < .05

^†

p < .10