. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 31.

Published in final edited form as: J Autism Dev Disord. 2014 Nov;44(11):2908–2920. doi: 10.1007/s10803-014-2190-y

Table 1.

Demographic data

	Autism group N = 65		Control group N = 65		t	p^a
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age in years (Range 8–46)	18.83	9.68	19.17	10.11	0.20	.85
Years of education	8.77	4.40	9.95	4.42	1.44	.15
Socioeconomic status^b	3.61	1.63	3.88	1.11	1.03	.31
Verbal IQ	102.00	15.60	102.57	8.90	0.26	.80
Full scale IQ	98.82	14.13	102.08	8.75	1.58	.12

None of these differences are statistically significant (p < .05)

This average reflects middle-class status (e.g., administrative personnel, small business owners)