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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Decis Making. 2015 May 7;35(8):937–947. doi: 10.1177/0272989X15584922

Table 3.

Demographics by condition

Percent Only Frequency Only Percent + risk label Frequency + risk label
N 97 98 81 92
Mean age in years (s) 50 (14) 50 (16) 51 (13) 54 (13)
Education, % associate degree or less * 48% 60% 54% 37%
Mean household income (s) 11.5 (2.8) 11.3 (3.2) 11.3 (3.3) 11.8 (3.0)
Ethnicity, % white* 94% 89% 93% 80%
Mean numeracy (s) * 4.1 (1.9) 3.7 (1.8) 4.2 (1.9) 4.5 (1.7)

Note. An asterisk denotes that the variable differed significantly between label and no label conditions. The letter “s” denotes a standard deviation.

Similar results are obtained with a more detailed education scale that approximately mirrors years of education (from 1=less than first grade to 16 = doctorate degree)

Income categories range from 1 (less than $5,000) to 14 (more than $75,000).