Table 3

Bivariate correlations between real-world errors and laboratory and word measures

Correlation with real-world error rate
Laboratory memory and perception test error rates
 Backward masking0.34*
 Progressive demasking0.09
 Speech-in-noise0.16
 Short-term memory0.32*
Laboratory memory and perception test near miss rates
 Backward masking0.34*
 Progressive demasking0.13
 Speech-in-noise0.31*
 Short-term memory0.20*
Laboratory memory and perception test response times
 Backward masking0.29*
 Progressive demasking0.28*
 Speech-in-noise0.20*
 Short-term memory0.11
Drug name word attributes
 Word frequency−0.28*
 Familiarity−0.37*
 Bigram frequency−0.05
 Length0.05
 Similarity0.22*

  • *Statistical significance (p<0.05).