ean LBE for women was 0.70cm, whereas the mean LBE for men was –0.10cm. The standard deviation for women was 1.13cm and 0.77cm for men. Using a calculation of difference between mean LBEs over the largest standard deviation, these differences do not seem to be statistically significant. Figure 1. Overall mean line bisection error (LBE) per participant. The diamond shapes represent female subject mean LBE, and the squares represent male subject mean LBE. Mean LBE per trial revealed that women (m=1.10cm) scored much higher than the men (m=-0.18cm) in the above eye level condition, with standard deviations of 0.14cm and 0.25cm respectively. This seems to be a statistically significant result. The below eye level condition yielded a mean LBE of –0.13cm for the women and –0.43 for the men. The respective standard deviations are 0.04cm and 0.67cm. These do not seem to be statistically significant differences.By calculating the mean LBE per modality, this study got results of 0.04cm for the women and 0.06cm for the men, using vision to bisect the lines. The standard deviations were 0.48cm for females and 0.05cm for males. Again, these differences do not seem statistically significant. In the tactual modality, mean LBE for females was 0.95cm and –0.19cm for males, with respective standard deviations of 0.78cm and 0.34cm. These differences do seem statistically significant.DiscussionAlthough the results point towards a difference in mean LBE overall, in favor of the male participants, these differences were not found to be statistically significant. Therefore, one can say that the current study found similar findings to the study by Drain and Reuters-Lorenz (1996). There seem to be real gender differences in visuo-spatial tasks, however, the magnitude of these differences is negligible. If one breaks down the overall mean LBE scores, it becomes clear that gender differences may be statistically significan...
