Table 2.

An example of the saliency score calculation (conducted for each response category per prompt)

Response category	Individual written responses	Ranking–reverse code	Calculationa	Saliency score
“Social disconnect”	Disconnected	1–5	34/18	1.89
	Disconnected	1–5
	Disconnected	3–3
	Disconnected (or connected alternatively)	2–4
	Lacks social skills/disconnected	1–5
	Socially disconnected	1–5
	Socially disconnected	2–4
	Socially disconnected	3–3

Bold text denotes coded text where more than one unique response was present

^aSaliency calculation = Sum of reverse codes/sample size