Table 4.
Experiment 2 participant characteristics: means, standard deviations (in brackets), and inferential statistics
| Group | t | p | Cohen’s d | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASD (n = 21) | TD (n = 20) | ||||
| Age | 36.86 (12.22) | 41.95 (13.94) | − 1.25 | .22 | 0.39 |
| Full-scale IQ | 105.62 (13.18) | 105.65 (12.99) | − 0.01 | .99 | < 0.01 |
| Range | 73–122 | 83–132 | |||
| Performance IQ | 106.14 (16.87) | 105.60 (15.18) | − 0.09 | .93 | 0.04 |
| Range | 65–132 | 76–141 | |||
| Verbal IQ | 105.38 (11.45) | 104.05 (11.22) | 0.38 | .71 | 0.12 |
| Range | 86–128 | 81–129 | |||
| Autism Quotient | 33.00 (8.20) | 14.25 (4.56) | 8.99 | < .001 | 2.82 |
| Reading the Mind in the Eyes | 24.95 (5.35) | 27.80 (3.86) | − 1.95 | .06 | 0.61 |
| Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition—Total | 28.10 (6.58) | 33.75 (5.21) | − 3.04 | < .001 | 0.95 |
| Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition—Control | 3.43 (1.29) | 4.40 (1.06) | − 2.60 | .01 | 0.81 |
| BART | 20.17 (9.24) | 25.46 (12.36) | − 1.56 | .13 | 0.48 |
| Lottery | 11.89 (24.14) | 5.97 (4.30) | 1.01 | .29 | 0.36 |