Table 4

Discriminative validity showing differences of comprehension scores by participants’ demographic variables

Rank sumExpectedSignificance
Gender
 Male (n=91)5765.511 284z=8.80, p<0.001
 Female (n=156)24 862.519 344
Domicile
 Urban (n=129)7640.514 632z=−11.1, p<0.001
 Rural (n=118)22 987.515 996
Education status
 Educated (n=62)97657688z=4.27, p<0.0001
 No western education (n=185)20 86322 940