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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cognition. 2016 Jul 15;155:176–187. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.07.002

Table 1.

Children’s Justifications for their Judgment of the School Supply Inequality, by Age Group and Judgment

Judgment: “Not Okay”
Judgment: “Okay”
Younger Children
(5–6 Years)
Older Children
(10–11 Years)
Younger Children
(5–6 Years)
Older Children
(10–11 Years)
Proportion
n
Proportion
n
Proportion
n
Proportion
n
Past
Inequality
.69a 43 .52a 43 0 0 0 0
Equality .24b 15 .48b 39 0 0 0 0
Status Quo .03 2 0 0 .46c 13 .92c 11
Personal
Preferences
.02 1 0 0 .39 11 .08 1
Other .02 1 0 0 .14 4 0 0

Note. a, b, and c denote column proportions that differ significantly from each other at p < .05.