Table 1.

Comparison of demographic variables between controls, yoga practitioners, and meditators for the original dataset.

	Controls		Yoga practitioners		Meditators M / %		ANOVA /χ2-test
	M /%	SD	M /%	SD	M /%	SD	F /χ2	df	p
Age (years)	52.93	9.84	49.38	7.79	54.06	8.15	1.29	2, 44	0.286
Education (years)	17.27	1.98	17.31	2.41	18.44	2.58	1.26	2, 44	0.293
Gender (% female)	60%		69%		63%		0.28	2	0.871
Handedness (% right)	87%		88%		88%		0.01	2	0.997