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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2014 Aug 25;50(10):2380–2392. doi: 10.1037/a0037715

Table 2.

Study 2: Attributions of Knowledge to Ms./Mr. Smart for Both Items in Category

Category 3 - 4.5
years
4.5 - 6.5
years
6.5 - 11
years
18 - 21
years
 Present 71% *c 79% **c 93% ***c 97% ***c
 Future 75% *b 86% ***c 75% *c 88% ***c
 Past 61% 79% **c 86% ***c 91% ***c
 Personal Preferences 82% *** 89% *** 82% *** 88% ***
 Personal Thoughts 75% *a 79% **c 71% *c 85% ***c
 Personal Events 61% 86% *** 79% ** 91% ***
 Personal Actions 54% 86% ***c 82% ***c 88% ***c
  All seven of the above categories 29% * 64% c 71% *c 85% ***c

Note. Asterisks indicate knowledge that was attributed to Ms./Mr. Smart by significantly more or less than 50% of the sample, according to binomial tests. Superscript letters indicate significantly greater attributions of knowledge to Ms./Mr. Smart compared to mom, according to McNemar tests. Significantly fewer than 50% of 3- to 4.5-year-olds reported that Ms./Mr. Smart knew about all seven categories.

*

p < .05,

**

p < .01,

***

p < .001

a

p < .05,

b

p < .01,

c

p < .001