Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of the discovery dataset (n = 50)
Male (n = 19) |
Female (n = 31) |
Test (male vs female)** | |||||||
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n | % | Center* | SD (±) | n | % | Center* | SD (±) | ||
Age (years) | 21.2 | 2.9 | 19.9 | 1.6 | t(48) = 1.71, p = 0.10 | ||||
18–24 | 17 | 89.5 | 31 | 100 | |||||
25–34 | 2 | 10.5 | 0 | 0 | |||||
35–44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Ethnicity/race | White | n/a | Black | n/a | χ2(5, N = 50) = 6.29, p = 0.18 | ||||
American Indian or Alaskan Native | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Asian | 5 | 26.3 | 10 | 32.3 | |||||
Black or African American | 3 | 15.8 | 12 | 38.7 | |||||
Hispanic or Latino | 4 | 21.1 | 2 | 6.5 | |||||
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
White or white | 7 | 36.8 | 6 | 19.4 | |||||
Other | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3.2 | |||||
Education | Student | n/a | Student | n/a | χ2(2, N = 50) = 1.27, p = 0.26 | ||||
Some college/Associate's degree | 15 | 79 | 28 | 90.3 | |||||
College/Graduate degree | 4 | 21.1 | 3 | 9.7 | |||||
Not reported | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
There were no significant differences between identified genders on the distributions of age, ethnicity, or education (right column).
*The measure of center used for the age variable was the mean, and for categorical variables of ethnicity/race and education it was the mode. For the education variable, student refers to “some college.”
**Hypothesis testing of significant differences between males and females. Age: two-sample t test adjusted for unequal sample sizes. Ethnicity/race and education: a χ2 test of independence.