Variability of Temporal Judgment: Intersensory Comparisons and Sex Differences

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Abstract
Previous work with 7- to 13-yr.-old children demonstrated that the time judgments of girls were more variable than boys, and this sex difference was greater for visual than auditory judgments. This study used the same method with an adult population. Ss rendered 9-category absolute judgments of short auditory and visual durations using a social or a subjective internal temporal standard, and a measure of intrasubject response variance was obtained. The women were more variable than men, and this sex difference was independent of sense mode and temporal standard; the significant effects due to sense mode and temporal standard were dependent upon the differential locations of the auditory and visual, social and subjective transition zones. The sex difference is discussed in light of the changing pattern of results obtained since 1894.

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