Table 7.

Summary statistics for analysis of variance (ANOVA) models used to examine the effects of age, gender, and state of residence (3-way ANOVA) and ethnicity and race (2-way ANOVA) on survey participants’ fish consumption rates (“total” fish meals/day and “target” fish meals/day), percent of fish meals comprised of target fishes, and Hg exposure rates (mg Hg/kg body weight/day). Significant contrasts are also presented.

Factor	Age		Gender		State		Contrasts
	F (df)	p	F (df)	p	F (df)	p
Fish eating rate (total)	3.48 (3)	< 0.05	4.64 (1)	< 0.05	1.10 (3)	0.347	66+ > 18- 45; Female > Male
Fish eating rate (target)	0.79 (3)	0.501	0.11 (1)	0.736	0.68 (3)	0.565	–
Percent target fish	1.04 (3)	0.374	5.00 (1)	< 0.05	1.01 (3)	0.386	Male > Female
Factor	Ethnicity		Race				Contrasts
	F (df)	p	F (df)	p
Fish eating rate (total)	0.51 (1)	0.475	0.18 (3)	0.907			–
Fish eating rate (target)	0.03 (1)	0.856	0.76 (3)	0.516			–
Percent target fish	0.39 (1)	0.534	1.78 (3)	0.150			–
Hg exposure rate	0.02 (1)	0.895	0.12 (3)	0.951			–