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Baseline Characteristics of respondents |
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| Old style teaching (n = 168) |
New style teaching (n = 157) |
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| Age |
mean (sd) |
21.1 (3.7) |
20.7 (4.3) |
| median (min to max) |
20 (19 to 39) |
19 (17 to 39) |
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| % missing |
5.3 |
5.1 |
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| Sex (%) |
male |
29.3 |
38.9 |
| female |
67.3 |
56.7 |
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| missing |
3.6 |
4.5 |
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| Level of previous statistics knowledge (%) |
none |
5.4 |
5.1 |
| GCSE (age 16 years) |
34.5 |
33.1 |
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| AS level (age 17 years) |
17.9 |
14.0 |
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| A level (age 18 years)* |
39.3 |
40.8 |
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| Degree (non-statistics) |
3.0 |
7.0 |
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* High school diploma level | |||
Freeman et al. BMC Medical Education 2008 8:28 doi:10.1186/1472-6920-8-28 |
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