Table 2.
Blind and sighted participant samples in Experiment 2.
Sample | Sex | N | Age | Sight Loss | ||||||
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Age of loss | Duration of loss (years) | Duration of loss (% of life) | ||||||||
M | Range | M | Range | M | Range | M | Range | |||
Early blind | F | 15 | 36.9 | 18–59 | 0.1 | 0–1.5 | 36.8 | 18–59 | 99.8 | 97–100 |
M | 16 | 32.0 | 17–50 | 0.2 | 0–1.5 | 31.8 | 17–50 | 99.2 | 93–100 | |
Late blind | F | 16 | 47.1 | 23–64 | 28.2 | 3–48 | 18.9 | 5–40 | 41.6 | 9.4–93 |
M | 9 | 51.3 | 29–61 | 33.9 | 4–53 | 17.4 | 1.5–50 | 32.2 | 4–93 | |
Sighted | F | 37 | 34.9 | 18–63 | ||||||
M | 24 | 29.0 | 19–47 | |||||||
All | 117 | 36.5 | 17–64 |