Table 2 Means (and SDs) of answer word length, question LSA, answer LSA, and question duration (ms) for stimuli in the four conditions in Experiment 1.

From: The role of answer content and length when preparing answers to questions

Answer length

Critical content

Answer word length

Question LSAa

Answer LSAb

Question duration

Short

Early

1.01 (0.03)

0.96 (0.08)

0.97 (0.04)

4145 (1348)

Late

1.01 (0.03)

0.92 (0.09)

0.96 (0.06)

4109 (1387

Long

Early

3.67 (0.73)

0.91 (0.10)

0.93 (0.08)

4469 (1522)

Late

3.61 (0.74)

0.91 (0.11)

0.95 (0.07)

4416 (1586)

  1. aAverage LSA value over comparisons between all answers provided to a particular question. Values closer to 1 indicate that participants tended to provide similar answers.
  2. bAverage LSA value over comparisons between the most frequent answer and all others. Values closer to 1 indicate that participants tended to provide similar answers.