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Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychobiol. 2010 Oct 28;53(2):196–210. doi: 10.1002/dev.20512

Table 3.

Mean and ± SD of Fine Motor Variables by Cultural Site

	Accra	Beijing	Detroit
Small pellet (SP)
Contact forearm	.48 ±.50^a^‡	.35 ± .48^b	.24±.42^c
Grasp type	10.45±3.43^a	8.82±.41^b	8.75±4.76^b
3-Step sequence	2.32±.79^a	2.27 ±.72	2.16±.56^b
Large pellet (LP)
Contact forearm	.54±.50^a	.42 ±.49^a	.33 ±.47^b
Grasp type	6.96±4.77^a	6.34±4.66^a	4.74±4.81^b
3-Step sequence	2.51±.67	2.56 ±.59	2.51±.58
Small ball (SB)
Number of hands	.82±.38^a	.81±.39^a	.39 ± .49^b
3-step sequence	2.72 ± .59^a	2.66 ± .68^a	2.35 ± .60^b
Large ball (LB)
Number of hands	.92 ± .27	.95 ± .23	.97 ± .18
3-Step sequence	2.10±.85^a	2.13±.79^a	2.48 ± .72^b
Box (B)
Good coordination	.53±.51^a	.47 ± .50^a	.76 ± .43^b
3-Step sequence	1.72±1.23^a	2.46±1.08^b	2.66±1.13^c

^‡

Different superscripts (a, b, c) indicate statistically significant differences between cultural sites for a given variable (p<.05). A larger number means better performance.