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. 2022 Oct 1:1–32. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s42973-022-00120-3

Table 2.

Summary statistics and balance checks

Summary statistics and balance check: all samples
Variable N Overall, N=1581a Ambiguity 1, N=531a Ambiguity 2, N=527a Control, N=523a p valueb
Female 1581 790 (50%) 266 (50%) 259 (49%) 265 (51%) 0.88
Age 1581 52 (40,69) 51 (39, 68) 52 (41, 66) 54 (40,70) 0.44
College 1581 368 (23%) 121 (23%) 133 (25%) 114 (22%) 0.40
Highschool 1581 633 (40%) 216 (41%) 201 (38%) 216 (41%) 0.54
Junior college 1581 180 (11%) 49 (9.2%) 62 (12%) 69 (13%) 0.12
Vocational school 1581 103 (6.5%) 39 (7.3%) 33 (6.3%) 31 (5.9%) 0.62
Income 1359 0.54
 99.5 174 (13%) 67 (15%) 50 (11%) 57 (13%)
 299.5 387 (28%) 117 (25%) 130 (29%) 140 (31%)
 499.5 318 (23%) 122 (27%) 100 (22%) 96 (21%)
 699.5 202 (15%) 67 (15%) 74 (17%) 61 (13%)
 899.5 132 (9.7%) 39 (8.5%) 47 (11%) 46 (10%)
 1099.5 51 (3.8%) 15 (3.3%) 16 (3.6%) 20 (4.4%)
 1299.5 43 (3.2 %) 17 (3.7%) 11 (2.5%) 15 (3.3%)
 1400 52 (3.8%) 15 (3.3%) 18 (4.0%) 19 (4.2%)
 Unknown 222 72 81 69
Ambiguity averse 1581 837 (53%) 282 (53%) 291 (55%) 264 (50%) 0.30
Ambiguity neutral 1581 356 (23%) 117 (22%) 106 (20%) 133 (25%) 0.11
Ambiguity loving 1581 388 (25%) 132 (25%) 130 (25%) 126 (24%) 0.96

an (%); median (IQR)

bPearson’s Chi-squared test; Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test