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“a trend toward significance”

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Although there was a trend toward significance for Reading Span Longest score ( r s = −0.42), Letter-Number Sequencing score ( r s = −0.41), and Letter-Number Sequencing Longest score ( r s = −0.44), the negative direction of these trends was contrary to expectations, as they appeared to be driven by a positive relationship between working memory and intelligibility of low-context sentences specifically.
Furthermore, t -tests examining the differences in viewing duration between adolescents and adults for each category revealed significant longer durations in adults only with respect to the lower two weight categories, extremely underweight and underweight, and a trend toward significance was also noted for the normal-weight category (see Figure 2 and Table S2, Supplementary Materials ).