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. 2020 Jul 24;11:1360. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01360

Table 1.

Alpha levels for significance were predetermined at 0.05 (significant, *), 0.01, and 0.001 (highly significant, ** and ***, respectively).

Expert drummers (ED) N = 11 Amateur drummers (AD) N = 11
Median (min/max) Median (min/max) Mann–Whitney U p-value (2-tailed)
Age (yrs) 24.0 (19.4/40.1) 27.7 (21.1/34.4) 0.077
AoC (yrs) 9 (4/14) 14 (9/22) **
YoP (yrs) 16 (9.6/35.1) 12.7 (3.0/21.4) n.s.
CLP (1,000 h) 8.8 (3/15) 2.4 (0.5/6.9) ***

Descriptive overview of relevant demographic data of the ED and AD groups. AoC, age of commencement of musical practice (drums); YoP, total years of practice (drums); CLP, cumulative life-time practice (from year-by-year daily/weekly practice according to retrospective self-reports).