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Table 5 Mean and standard deviation of test-taking effort by cluster position and correlation between effort at the beginning and at the end of the session, by session
Country | Mean and standard deviation of test-taking effort | Correlation between effort estimates for clusters 1 and 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cluster 1 | Cluster 2 | Cluster 3 | Cluster 4 | Session 1 | Session 2 | |||||||||||||||
\(\widehat{\upmu }\) | SE | \(\widehat{\upsigma }\) | SE | \(\widehat{\upmu }\) | SE | \(\widehat{\upsigma }\) | SE | \(\widehat{\upmu }\) | SE | \(\widehat{\upsigma }\) | SE | \(\widehat{\upmu }\) | SE | \(\widehat{\upsigma }\) | SE | \(\widehat{\uprho }\) | SE | \(\widehat{\uprho }\) | SE | |
AUS | 0.94 | 0.00 | 0.12 | 0.00 | 0.88 | 0.00 | 0.16 | 0.00 | 0.90 | 0.00 | 0.14 | 0.00 | 0.85 | 0.00 | 0.17 | 0.00 | 0.63 | 0.02 | 0.73 | 0.01 |
CAN | 0.94 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.01 | 0.89 | 0.00 | 0.15 | 0.01 | 0.90 | 0.00 | 0.14 | 0.01 | 0.86 | 0.00 | 0.16 | 0.01 | 0.62 | 0.03 | 0.73 | 0.02 |
GBR | 0.93 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.01 | 0.87 | 0.00 | 0.16 | 0.01 | 0.88 | 0.00 | 0.16 | 0.01 | 0.82 | 0.01 | 0.20 | 0.01 | 0.63 | 0.03 | 0.73 | 0.02 |
IRL | 0.95 | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.01 | 0.90 | 0.00 | 0.13 | 0.01 | 0.92 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.01 | 0.89 | 0.01 | 0.14 | 0.01 | 0.58 | 0.03 | 0.68 | 0.03 |
NZL | 0.94 | 0.00 | 0.10 | 0.01 | 0.87 | 0.01 | 0.16 | 0.01 | 0.90 | 0.00 | 0.13 | 0.01 | 0.84 | 0.01 | 0.18 | 0.01 | 0.61 | 0.03 | 0.69 | 0.03 |
USA | 0.94 | 0.00 | 0.10 | 0.01 | 0.88 | 0.00 | 0.15 | 0.01 | 0.91 | 0.00 | 0.12 | 0.01 | 0.86 | 0.01 | 0.16 | 0.01 | 0.60 | 0.04 | 0.64 | 0.03 |