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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2012 May;48(3):901–906. doi: 10.1037/a0027831

Table 1.

Mean differences, SEs, p-values, and Cohen’s d for label vs. no-label comparisons, Noles & Gelman (2012).

Mean difference |label – nolabel| SE p-value Cohen’s d
DISCRIMINABLE ITEMSa
 Discriminable-first orderb
  LPT vs. NL .10 .12 1.00 0.43
  LMT vs. NL .11 .12 1.00 0.81
 Identical-first orderc
  LPT vs. NL .36 .12 .01* 0.93
  LMT vs. NL .23 .12 .15 0.64
IDENTICAL ITEMSd
 Discriminable-first orderb
  LPT vs. NL .20 .11 .20 0.80
  LMT vs. NL .17 .10 .34 0.62
 Identical-first orderc
  LPT vs. NL .32 .11 .01* 1.24
  LMT vs. NL .18 .10 .25 0.63

Note 1: LPT = Labels plus training; NL = no labels; LMT = Labels minus training.

Note 2: We calculated Cohen’s d based on means and SDs; some of our estimates differ from those provided by S&F.

a

corresponds to “SR = 9” in S&F

b

corresponds to “Order 1” in S&F

c

corresponds to “Order 2” in S&F

d

corresponds to “SR = 1” in S&F