Table 3.
Demographic characteristics of the SKILL and ACTIVE samples.
| SKILL |
ACTIVE |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Level | n | % | n | % |
| Gender | Female | 482 | 58.2 | 1822 | 75.1 |
| Male | 346 | 41.8 | 604 | 24.9 | |
| Ethnicity | African American | 73 | 8.8 | 593 | 24.4 |
| Caucasian | 749 | 90.5 | 1791 | 73.8 | |
| Other | 4 | 0.5 | 42 | 1.7 | |
| Education | High school | 771 | 93.1 | 2199 | 90.6 |
| College education | 346 | 41.8 | 830 | 34.2 | |
| Variable | M | SD | Min | Max | M | SD | Min | Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (years) | 73.2 | 5.8 | 62 | 96 | 73.4 | 5.8 | 65 | 94 |
| Education (years) | 14.1 | 2.7 | 6 | 20 | 13.7 | 2.7 | 5 | 20 |
| Far acuity (score) | 72.0 | 11.2 | 11.5 | 90 | 73.5 | 11.4 | 31.8 | 90 |
| MMSE (score) | 28.5 | 1.3 | 25 | 30 | 27.8 | 1.5 | 25 | 30 |
Note. Other ethinicities include Hispanic, Asian, Native American, and unspecified categories. Far visual acuity was assessed using a Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) letter chart and we report Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE; M. F. Folstein, Folstein, & McHugh, 1975) as an inidicator of cognitive impairment.