Table 2.
Comparison of Social Responsiveness Scale total raw score between the United States and Japan
Grade | Country | t | P | d | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Japan | US | ||||||
N | Mean (SD) | N | Mean (SD) | ||||
1 | 3102 | 35.3 (17.6) | 71 | 29.6 (25.6) | 1.87 | 0.06 | 0.318 |
2 | 2891 | 34.2 (17.4) | 92 | 34.9 (26.9) | 0.25 | 0.80 | 0.041 |
3 | 2786 | 33.2 (18.0) | 109 | 35.7 (26.8) | 0.97 | 0.33 | 0.136 |
4 | 2739 | 31.9 (17.5) | 227 | 35.3 (24.9) | 2.02 | 0.04 | 0.188 |
5 | 2703 | 32.0 (18.0) | 214 | 34.5 (25.3) | 1.42 | 0.16 | 0.134 |
6 | 2408 | 30.8 (18.7) | 211 | 31.7 (21.5) | 0.59 | 0.56 | 0.049 |
7 | 2123 | 31.3 (18.4) | 161 | 31.1 (20.6) | 0.12 | 0.90 | 0.008 |
8 | 2040 | 31.1 (19.1) | 137 | 31.9 (23.7) | 0.39 | 0.70 | 0.040 |
9 | 1532 | 30.2 (19.7) | 124 | 38.9 (29.2) | 3.26 | 0.00 | 0.422 |
Total | 22 344 | 32.5 (18.2) | 1626* | 33.6 (24.7) | 1.76 | 0.08 | 0.051 |
Grade 1 children are usually 6–7 years old. Most grade 1 participants were 7 years old at the time of the survey.
US data were cited from the SRS manual (p. 28) (10.