Reaction Time and Mortality from the Major Causes of Death: The NHANES-III Study

Gareth Hagger-Johnson; Ian J. Deary; Carolyn A. Davies; Alexander Weiss; G. David Batty

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0082959

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Reaction Time and Mortality from the Major Causes of Death: The NHANES-III Study

Gareth Hagger-Johnson ,

* E-mail: g.hagger-johnson@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom
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Ian J. Deary,

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Carolyn A. Davies,

Affiliation Medical Research Council (MRC)/Chief Scientist Office (CSO) Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Alexander Weiss,

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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G. David Batty

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom, Department of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Reaction Time and Mortality from the Major Causes of Death: The NHANES-III Study

Gareth Hagger-Johnson,
Ian J. Deary,
Carolyn A. Davies,
Alexander Weiss,
G. David Batty

Published: January 29, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0082959

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Mean RTs?

Posted by Benambridge on 09 Feb 2014 at 17:25 GMT

Sorry if this was in the paper or supplementary materials somewhere, but I couldn't find it. What was the Mean RT and SD for this study, and how does it compare with other studies? The best estimate I could find elsewhere seemed to be M=275ms, SD=160 (from Woodley et al, 2013).

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RE: Mean RTs?

Benambridge replied to Benambridge on 11 Feb 2014 at 15:08 GMT

Sorry, found it! M=243, SD=58 - so a very similar mean but much smaller SD

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Mean RTs?

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