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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Exp Aging Res. 2016 May-Jun;42(3):221–263. doi: 10.1080/0361073X.2016.1156964

Table 2.

Average effect sizes for each visual acuity criteria and cognitive domain

Visual Acuity Criteria Cognitive Domain

Attention Executive
Function
Memory Perception/
Language
Overall



Unreported 0.49 [0.38, 0.57] 0.41 [0.37, 0.45] 0.42 [0.37, 0.47] 0.43 [0.33, 0.52] 0.44 [0.41, 0.47]
Undisclosed 0.47 [0.39, 0.55] 0.48 [0.41, 0.54] 0.45 [0.37, 0.53] 0.51 [0.43, 0.59] 0.48 [0.44, 0.52]
Self-reported 0.44 [0.40, 0.49] 0.47 [0.31, 0.60] 0.36 [0.20, 0.50] 0.58 [0.42, 0.71] 0.47 [0.43, 0.51]
20/80 – 20/31 0.56 [0.51, 0.61] 0.45 [0.35, 0.54] 0.51 [0.39, 0.62] 0.38 [0.32, 0.44] 0.48 [0.44, 0.51]
20/30 or above 0.63 [0.54, 0.71] 0.43 [0.30, 0.54] 0.49 [0.39, 0.59] 0.43 [0.36, 0.49] 0.50 [0.46, 0.54]
Overall 0.52 [0.50, 0.55] 0.45 [0.42, 0.48] 0.45 [0.41, 0.48] 0.47 [0.44, 0.50]

Note. Average effect sizes (r) and 95% confidence intervals (in brackets) are presented as a function of the five visual acuity criteria and four cognitive domains. Overall values were calculated for each visual acuity criteria by collapsing across the cognitive domains and vice versa.