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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 6.
Published in final edited form as: Law Hum Behav. 2019 Feb;43(1):69–85. doi: 10.1037/lhb0000315

Table 3.

Descriptive Statistics by Age Group: Mean (SD)

10–11 12–13 14–15 16–17 18–21 22–25 26–30

Par. Ed. 11.83 (3.00) 12.07 (2.91) 12.12 (2.78) 11.86 (2.88) 12.01 (2.79) 11.78 (3.03) 11.24 (3.24)
WASI 48.33 (11.00) 46.01 (11.07) 46.18 (10.87) 46.97 (10.54) 49.81 (10.41) 51.36 (10.19) 51.42 (11.62)
RPI .57 (.25) .60 (.25) .60 (.25) .62 (.25) .62 (.24) .67 (.23) .67 (.25)
Stoplight .42 (.22) .42 (.21) .44 (.23) .42 (.21) .43 (.23) .42 (.23) .39 (.23)
DD 400.85 (301.17) 375.29 (303.76) 384.49 (269.58) 400.23 (295.09) 415.20 (291.62) 443.08 (303.11) 437.20 (311.98)
IGT −.02 (.24) −.03 (.24) −.06 (.25) −.07 (.27) −.10 (.28) −.12 (.29) −.13 (.32)
ToL 4475.99 (3382.75) 4467.41 (3661.45) 5363.33 (5660.86) 5848.01 (6092.83) 6481.17 (5978.23) 6926.48 (6618.99) 7055.67 (6932.37)
WM 6.11 (1.37) 6.58 (1.26) 6.97 (1.08) 7.15 (1.00) 7.26 (0.95) 7.21 (1.08) 7.17 (1.11)
VF 10.5 (4.44) 11.03 (5.15) 12.72 (5.71) 13.65 (6.52) 13.94 (5.84) 14.46 (6.49) 14.90 (6.48)
DSB 4.02 (1.19) 4.26 (1.20) 4.52 (1.47) 4.61 (1.43) 4.82 (1.49) 4.81 (1.52) 4.79 (1.39)

N 1191 702 667 623 715 670 659
% Female 51.8 48.4 50.7 50.9 49.9 51.3 51.4

Note. Par. Ed. = Parental education. WASI = WASI t-score. DD = Delay discounting, average indifference point for longest delays. RPI = Resistance to peer influence (on a 0–1 scale). IGT = Iowa Gambling Task, corresponding to the proportion decrease in plays on disadvantageous decks. ToL = Tower of London, latency to first move (in ms). WM = Working memory, average accuracy (out of 8). VF = Verbal fluency, number of words produced in one minute. DSB = Digit Span backward, longest string of digits correctly recalled in reverse order (with a maximum value of 8).