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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Res Methods. 2017 Aug;49(4):1386–1398. doi: 10.3758/s13428-016-0794-1

Table 3.

Means and Standard Deviations of Measures

Control GistFit Total GistFit (All) GistFit (Some) GistFit (None)

Min Max Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD
Verbatim Knowledge 0 1 0.64 0.15 0.74 0.16 0.78 0.13 0.74 0.16 0.66 0.19
Gist Knowledge 0 1 0.65 0.17 0.70 0.17 0.77 0.14 0.69 0.17 0.61 0.18
Gist Comprehension 0 5 4.48 0.76 4.61 0.80 4.89 0.49 4.60 0.80 4.19 1.06
Gist Principles of Nutrition 0 4 3.29 0.49 3.40 0.48 3.37 0.35 3.58 0.46 3.25 0.64
Gist Principles of Exercising 0 4 3.04 0.50 3.19 0.49 3.16 0.51 3.36 0.47 3.05 0.48
Gist Principles of Lifestyle 0 4 3.36 0.51 3.48 0.53 3.49 0.45 3.61 0.43 3.31 0.72
Behavioral Intentions 0 7 3.75 0.71 3.86 0.65 3.78 0.66 4.13 0.49 3.68 0.75

Note. All irrelevant-content control tutorials were combined for analyses because differences among them were non-significant. Nutrition Behavior was based on the amount of healthy food ingested per week and Exercising Behavior was based on the number of hours of moderate and vigorous activity per week. SD = Standard Deviation.