Table 2.
Likelihood of Selecting the Immediate Reward on Each Item, Ordered by Degree of Effect of Reward Magnitude and Delay Constraints, of the Delay Discounting Task, Split by Country
| U.S. (n = 217) | Argentina (n = 300) | Australia (n = 254) | Malaysia (n = 323) | U.K. (n = 173) | India (n = 153) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | % | % | % | % | % | % | χ2, p value |
| $99 Now vs. $100/1 Year | 91% | 96% | 90% | 84% | 93% | 83% | 36.87, <.001 |
| $80 Now vs. $100/6 Months | 86% | 93% | 76% | 78% | 83% | 82% | 36.87, <.001 |
| $50 Now vs. $100/1 Year | 77% | 81% | 69% | 70% | 73% | 85% | 23.58, <.001 |
| $80 Now vs. $100/1 Month | 72% | 74% | 58% | 61% | 59% | 76% | 35.50, <.001 |
| $70 Now vs. $100/1 Month | 53% | 52% | 37% | 49% | 29% | 72% | 75.57, <.001 |
| $40 Now vs. $100/1 Month | 25% | 24% | 15% | 36% | 10% | 54% | 110.28, <.001 |
| $10 Now vs. $100/6 Months | 27% | 18% | 14% | 32% | 5% | 48% | 114.15, <.001 |
| $30 Now vs. $100/2 Weeks | 11% | 7% | 4% | 19% | 1% | 45% | 190.05, <.001 |
Note. Degrees of freedom for all analyses are identical (df = 5).