. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 13.

Published in final edited form as: J Behav Decis Mak. 2010 Jul 10;25(1):29–40. doi: 10.1002/bdm.711

Table 3.

Proportion of participants selecting the optimal alternative

Age group	Condition	Alignable focus	Unalignable focus
Young	No deliberation	.48^*	.30
Young	Active deliberation	.41	.48^*
Middle aged	No deliberation	.50^*	.27
Middle aged	Active deliberation	.48^*	.54^*
Old	No deliberation	.58^*	.46
Old	Active deliberation	.50^*	.57^*
All participants	No deliberation	.52^*	.34
All participants	Active deliberation	.46^*	.53^*

p<.05—performance greater than chance.