Young Children Use Discovery and Creation Significantly More Than Adults for Deciding Ownership

Table 2

Summarized data and statistical analysis of decisions for all conflicts in children and adults.

Conflict	Children		Adults		Children vs. Adults
	1st/T	Binomial	1st/T	Binomial
D vs. C	51/72	p < .0005	15/51	p = .0046	p < .0001
		RR = 1.42		RR = 0.60	2 = 20.60
					RR = 2.408
D vs. O	68/73	p < .0001	23/55	p = .2806	p < .0001
		RR = 1.86			2 = 40.22
					RR = 2.228
D vs. T	67/74	p < .0001	24/42	p = .4408	p < .0001
		RR = 1.81			2 = 17.68
					RR = 1.584
C vs. O	68/74	p < .0001	26/42	p = .1641	p < .0001
		RR = 1.84			2 = 15.68
					RR = 1.484
T vs. C	58/73	p < .0001	36/54	p = .0300	p = .0759
		RR = 1.60		RR = 1.33	2 = 3.151
T vs. O	55/72	p < .0001	38/51	p = .0006	p = .8110
		RR = 1.53		RR = 1.49	2 = 0.057
D vs. all others	186/219	p < .0001	62/148	p = .0583	p < .0001
	(Mdn = 2/2)	RR = 1.70	(Mdn = 1/2)		U = 1609
1st vs. 2nd	367/438	p < .0001	162/296	p = .1164	p < .0001
	(Mdn = 4/4)	RR = 1.68	(Mdn = 2/4)		U = 1801

Note. The second and third columns show the split of decisions in each conflict as the number of judgments favoring the first character over the total number of answers (1st/T), and the summary of all the stories involving the Discovery claim (D vs. all others) and the summary of total answers for the six conflicts ( vs. ). Within-groups analysis was performed through Binomial tests assuming a random distribution of cases. The fourth column displays the comparisons between decisions of adults and children: differences in individual stories were analyzed through Chi-square tests; differences in the D vs. all others and 1st vs. 2nd summaries were analyzed through Mann-Whitney U tests.
RR: Relative risk.