Table 4.

Summary of Age, IQ and Autism Spectrum Quotient characteristics of the ASD and Comparison Groups in Study 2

Measure	ASD (n = 20: M = 17; F = 3)		Comparison (n = 26: M = 20; F = 6)		p
	M	SD	M	SD
Age (years; months)	45;4	12.6	44;0	11.6	ns
Verbal IQa	114.4	14.5	109.1	14.7	ns
Performance IQa	111.0	17.8	105.6	14.3	ns
Full-Scale IQa	114.6	16.6	108.1	15.3	ns
AQb	35.8	14.3	14.3	5.8	< 0.001

M male, F female

^aWechsler Adult Intelligence Scale III^UK (Wechsler 1999)

^bAutism Spectrum Quotient (Baron-Cohen et al. 2001)