Subjects, all full-time polytechnic students studying engineering, science and education (ns = 91 males, 27 females), took the modified rod-and-frame test. Higher scores, indicating greater field dependence among females than males, were obtained, but correlations were much lower for Series 3 than for Series 1 and 2.
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