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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Ecol Sociobiol. 2013 Apr 17;67(9):1457–1469. doi: 10.1007/s00265-013-1521-x

Table 1.

For each sex skin region, measures of the maximum JND variation that males showed from their own (intraindividual) and the all male (interindividual) maximum lightness images. Values presented represent the mean (with SEM) maximum variation (i.e., the average maximum JND score showed across all males), as well as the min and max JND scores showed by any male. Note that each image in the dataset was compared to the image of maximum lightness (of that male for intraindividual analyses and of all males for interindividual analyses). However, this scaling image may not necessarily be the least colorful image. As such, though luminance measures must necessarily always be higher for interindividual measures when compared to intraindividual measures, this is not the case for color measures

Face Rump Genitals
Intraindividual color variation (JNDs) 1.5 1.7 2.4
SEM 0.1 0.2 0.4
Min 0.5 0.8 0.7
Max 2.3 3.2 7.2
Intraindividual luminance variation (JNDs) 17.5 19.3 27.1
SEM 1.4 1.6 2.4
Min 10.1 9.9 14.3
Max 34.2 36.5 50.9
Interindividual color variation (JNDs) 1.9 2.4 2.1
SEM 0.1 0.1 0.4
Min 1.4 1.4 0.6
Max 2.5 3.1 6.6
Interindividual luminance variation (JNDs) 28.2 28.2 39.2
SEM 1.5 1.4 2.1
Min 18.8 18.9 25.4
Max 40.4 46.4 67.8