Table 2 Aggregated statistics on age, facial expressiveness, emotion congruency, and social responsiveness survey (SRS-2) scores for the two NT clusters
Variable | NT: cluster 1 (n = 39) | NT: cluster 2 (n = 18) | δ (95% CI) | p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Median | SD | Median | SD | |||
Age (years) | 29.63 | 7.68 | 32.42 | 13.12 | 0.099 (−0.281, 0.453) | 0.615 |
Expressiveness/engagement | 2.79 | 3.69 | 25.95 | 12.61 | 0.94 (0.826, 0.98) | 0 |
Average congruence | 99.72 | 1.64 | 96.62 | 6.16 | −0.625 (−0.817, −0.308) | 0 |
SRS-2 (T-scores) | ||||||
Social awareness | 44.00 | 7.86 | 44.00 | 7.59 | −0.038 (−0.349, 0.281) | 0.822 |
Social cognition | 44.00 | 7.76 | 44.00 | 6.26 | 0.066 (−0.245, 0.364) | 0.68 |
Social communication | 45.00 | 8.01 | 44.00 | 7.00 | −0.096 (−0.402, 0.229) | 0.565 |
Social motivation | 51.00 | 9.13 | 52.00 | 8.64 | 0.093 (−0.221, 0.39) | 0.563 |
Restricted interests and repetitive behavior | 45.00 | 6.04 | 47.00 | 9.93 | 0.189 (−0.152, 0.49) | 0.268 |