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Table 2 Percentage of correct decisions about patient's sex made by male and female participants.

From: Is it possible to identify patient's sex when reading blinded illness narratives? An experimental study about gender bias

 

All letters

(N = 81)

Male letters

(n = 42)

Female letters

(n = 39)

p-values*

Male participants

(n = 45)

61.2

65.7

55.9

< 0.000

Female participants

(n = 85)

62.0

64.8

58.5

< 0.000

All participants

(N = 130)

61.7

65.2

58.0

< 0.000

  1. * p-values comparing the success for male and female letters.