From: Friend matters: sex differences in social language during autism diagnostic interviews
 | Females | Males | Effects |
---|---|---|---|
Participant speech behavior | |||
Part A | |||
 Social word frequency per 1000 words | 127.04 (24.8) 59–161 | 110.59 (24.3) 59–171 | p < .001** est: − .13 |
 Friend word frequency per 1000 words | 7.72 (4.92) 2–23 | 6.13 (3.81) 0–15 | p = .01* est: − .22 |
 Family word frequency per 1000 words | 8.88 (5.84) 0–26 | 8.32 (5.61) 0–28 | p = .18 est: − .11 |
Part B | |||
 Total length of conversation (min) | 21.86 (4.24) 14.3–38.7 | 21.64 (6.67) 10.8–52.3 | p = .97 est: − .05 |
 Total time speaking (min) | 7.66 (3.29) 2.9–15.4 | 6.96 (3.59) 0.8–19.3 | p = .15 est: − .87 |
 Word count | 1218.72 (545.97) 318–2420 | 1024.68 (544.47) 132–3091 | p = .11 est: − 150.9 |
 Characters per word | 3.83 (0.11) 3.6–4.1 | 3.77 (0.15) 3.4–4.1 | p = .18 est: < .001 |
 Type-token ratio | 0.40 (0.08) .30–.63 | 0.37 (0.07) .24–.60 | p = .05 est: < .001 |