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Female participants showed higher metacognitive ability than male participants

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r1 · q3
Currency · newest study 2013 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q is the design tier, i the impact, n the sample, and the kind with its r the rigour judged within that kind: what each code means.

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q3 i? Females tended to have greater Aroc than males (females mean 0.71, SD 0.051; males mean 0.68, SD 0.034; t(54) = 2.2, p = .032). → Weil L.G. 2013

Evidence

Weil L.G. 2013

Weil L.G., Fleming S.M., Dumontheil I., Kilford E.J., Weil R.S., Rees G., Dolan R.J., Blakemore S.-J. (2013). The development of metacognitive ability in adolescence. Consciousness and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2013.01.004

q3 · i? · associational · r1

Independent t-test comparing male and female participants in the 56-participant cross-sectional sample. The authors state the study "was not designed to investigate gender differences" and that this relationship was not observed in their previous study.

"We found that females tended to have greater Aroc than males (females, mean 0.71, SD 0.051; males, mean 0.68, SD 0.034; t(54) = 2.2, p = .032)."

Discussion

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type claim
id females-higher-metacognitive-ability-than-males
title Female participants showed higher metacognitive ability than male participants
description Female participants showed higher metacognitive ability than male participants
status review
evidence_strength weak
newest_evidence 2013
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-16
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