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It has been found in previous studies that Ss can read words faster than colors, and that they can read only stimuli consisting of either words or colors faster than their mixture in a color-word interference task. Such studies have concerned themselves with Ss of roughly the same age, and sex performances have been rarely considered. The present research attempts to find out the difference in performance between: (1) females and males of specific age groups; (2) females and males of certain educational levels; (3) females and males across three different age and educational levels; and (4) trends in the male and female performance levels. Results indicated that there were significant differences between all elementary and high school Ss and between the elementary and college Ss. It was also found that although the females did show a constant trend of better performance than the males, the differences were not significant at the. 05 level.
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Peretti, P.O. Cross-sex and cross-educational level performance in a color-word interference task. Psychon Sci 16, 321–323 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332712
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