Table 7.

Employer ratings of overall impressions of autistic and non-autistic interviewees in Phases 1 and 2 (standard deviations are in parentheses).

Overall impressions	Phase 1 (unadapted)					Phase 2 (adapted)					Phase 1 vs Phase 2
	Autistic	Non-autistic	F	p	${\mathrm{\eta }}_p^2$	Autistic	Non-autistic	F	p	${\mathrm{\eta }}_p^2$	F	p	${\mathrm{\eta }}_p^2$
Confidencea	1.92 (0.66)	2.47 (0.73)	7.58	0.008	0.14	2.13 (0.64)	2.48 (0.57)	4.54	0.039	0.10	1.24	0.273	0.03
Motivation	2.31 (0.62)	2.63 (0.65)	3.03	0.088	0.06	2.43 (0.59)	2.74 (0.59)	2.87	0.098	0.07	1.69	0.202	0.04
Knowledge	2.32 (0.54)	2.59 (0.61)	2.55	0.117	0.05	2.53 (0.55)	2.51 (0.52)	0.36	0.550	0.01	1.15	0.291	0.03
Conscientiousnessb	2.52 (0.48)	2.72 (0.53)	1.80	0.186	0.04	2.81 (0.43)	2.98 (0.37)	1.32	0.257	0.03	12.62	0.001	0.24
Competenceb	2.39 (0.54)	2.71 (0.61)	3.64	0.063	0.07	2.63 (0.50)	2.77 (0.46)	1.65	0.206	0.04	8.73	0.005	0.18
Intelligence	2.34 (0.57)	2.50 (0.62)	0.96	0.333	0.02	2.45 (0.45)	2.57 (0.40)	0.45	0.508	0.01	1.39	0.246	0.03
Communication skillsa,b	1.93 (0.57)	2.59 (0.66)	14.14	<0.001	0.23	2.28 (0.62)	2.86 (0.52)	11.95	<0.001	0.24	18.65	<0.001	0.32
Likeabilitya,b	2.33 (0.50)	2.75 (0.46	9.14	0.004	0.16	2.56 (0.44)	2.83 (0.35)	9.00	0.005	0.19	4.21	0.047	0.10
Ease to work witha,b	2.08 (0.55)	2.75 (0.43)	22.56	<0.001	0.32	2.38 (0.53)	2.80 (0.40)	15.84	<0.001	0.29	7.10	0.011	0.15

^aSignificant main effect of Group (across phases). ^bSignificant main effect of Phase (across groups).