Table 7.
Number of tiles | Number of words | Tiles/Word | |||||||
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Subject | T1 | T2 | T3 | T1 | T2 | T3 | T1 | T2 | T3 |
1 | 13 | 22 | 19 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 4.33 | 3.67 | 1.46 |
2 | 9 | 17 | 22 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 4.25 | 5.5 |
3 | 13 | 10 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4.33 | 2.5 | 3 |
4 | 16 | – | – | 4 | – | – | 4 | – | – |
5 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 5.5 |
6 | 22 | 24 | 27 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 3.67 | 4.8 | 3 |
7 | 20 | – | – | 8 | – | – | 2.5 | – | – |
8 | 20 | 19 | 24 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 3.33 | 3.17 | 3 |
9 | 30 | 33 | 37 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 3.75 | 3.67 | 3.36 |
10 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3.25 | 3.25 | 4 |
11 | 5 | – | – | 0 | – | – | ∞ | – | – |
12 | 20 | 23 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6.67 | 7.67 | 4.33 |
13 | 12 | 24 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 3.6 |
14 | 16 | 20 | 25 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 3.2 | 2.86 | 1.92 |
15 | 17 | 12 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 6 | 4 |
16 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3.25 | 2.2 | 2.8 |
17 | 7 | 7 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.25 |
18 | 25 | 30 | 37 | 10 | 10 | 13 | 2.5 | 3 | 2.85 |
19 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 2.67 | 2.83 | 2.43 |
Variables of interest include: number of tiles manipulated, number of dictionary words formed and average number of manipulated tiles per dictionary word formed. A dash represents an incomplete trial, T1 =trial 1, T2 =trial 2, and T3 =trial 3.