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Published in final edited form as: Psychol Aging. 2012 Jan 16;27(3):691–700. doi: 10.1037/a0026714

Table 1.

Demographic, Metacognitive, and Cognitive Measures by Sex

	Women	Men
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	t or χ²	p
Age (years)	55.0 ± 13.8	57.8 ± 14.1	0.91	.360
Years Education	15.9 ± 2.3	15.5 ± 2.8	0.70	.485
MMSE Score	29.0 ± 1.1	28.6 ± 0.9	1.66	.102
Hypertensive	19 (28%)	12 (39%)	1.25	.263
Shallow Strategy	4.3 ± 1.8	4.3 ± 1.8	0.03	.971
Deep Strategy	8.0 ± 1.6	7.2 ± 1.9	2.00	.056
Size Judgment Span	9.2 ± 2.0	9.1 ± 1.5	0.45	.657
Correct nonverbal 3-back	11.2 ± 4.9	9.7 ± 3.8	1.62	.142
Correct verbal 3-back	15.6. ± 3.2	13.7 ± 4.3	2.40	.018
WM Composite	0.1 ± 0.8	−0.2 ± 0.7	1.81	.074

Note: Strategy = encoding strategy effectiveness rating