In 11 male and 11 female Ss increased exposure time in the RFT gave a significant impairment in performance, as measured in absolute mean error (p < .001), establishing that the exposure-time effect reported by the same authors in 26 female Ss also applies to males. When sign of error was taken into account, undershoot in the long exposure time condition was significantly greater than overshoot (p < .001) and a significant interaction between sex and undershoot-overshoot was demonstrated (p < .05). Use of long exposures gives a more sensitive measure of sex differences in premature reporting of upright in the RFT.
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