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Table 2 Response times (RT, seconds) of men and women in Experiment 2

From: Are women better than men at multi-tasking?

Task

Men

Women

t test

p value

Cohen’sd

Arithmetic

312 (13)

341 (17)

1.33

.19

0.28

Map task

160 (16)

180 (14)

0.91

.37

0.19

Key search

36 (4)

36 (5)

0.03

.98

0.01

  1. Standard errors in parentheses. The sum of the three individual tasks exceeds the 480 allocated seconds, because sometimes the participants carried these tasks out concurrently and so were double scored on time.