Name,Task_description,Picture_description,AvgScoreMale,AvgScoreFemale
Anagram,"Participants had to solve as many Anagram tasks as possible within a given time. In each task, they had to arrange four pairs of letters to form a word like in the example below. For each correct solution, participants earned one point.","An example task is depicted below. Here, the correct answer was ""STANDING"". Writing ""Standing"" would earn one point.",110.4972376,89.50276243
Ball-bucket,"In this task, participants were given 10 tennis balls that they had to throw into a small basket which was placed 10 feet away.
For each successful throw they earned 10 points.
","An example task is depicted below. Here, the participant's perspective is depicted. Each ball successfully thrown into the bucket would earn 10 points.",101.2709504,98.72904957
Spot-the-difference,"In this task, participants were shown two very similar pictures. There were 10 differences between the two pictures. Participants had to spot as many of the 10 differences as they could within a given time limit. They could spot these differences by placing up to 10 circles on the right picture. For each difference correctly spotted, participants earned 10 points. ","An example task is depicted below. Here, 3 of the 10 differences between the pictures are marked. Each of these differences would earn 10 points.",94.94872769,105.0512723
Count-numbers,"Participants had to solve as many Count-numbers tasks tasks as possible within a given time. In each task, they had to count the number of ones in a 5x5 matrix.
For each correct solution, they earned 10 points. ","An example task is depicted below. Here, there are twelve ""1""s, so inputting 12 would earn ten points.",100.3009027,99.69909729
Data-search,"Participants were given a list of 500 companies. Their task was to scrape basic information (company name, share price, profit, number of employees) about these companies from a specific website and input it into the computer. They had to do this for as many companies as they could within a given time limit. For each piece of information correctly inputted, participants earned one point. ","An example task is depicted below. Here, the correct answers were: company name: Apple Inc.; Share price: 192.42, etc. Each of these inputs would earn one point.",103.626943,96.37305699
Emotion-recognition,"Participants had to solve as many Emotion-recognition tasks as they could within a given time. In each task, there was a picture of a person displaying a particular emotion. Out of a set of four given options, participants had to choose the emotion that matches the one on the picture. For each correct answer, they earned one point. ","An example task is depicted below. Here, the correct answer was ""Anger"". Selecting ""Anger"" would earn one point.",100.6542526,99.34574736
Find-hidden-words,"Participants had to solve as many Find-hidden-words tasks as possible within a given time. In each task, there was a 10x10 matrix containing letters. Participants had to find as many of the hidden words as they could. At any point, participants were free to skip and move on to the next matrix. Each matrix came with multiple possibe solutions. Participants earned one point for every word they correctly spotted. ","An example task is depicted below. Here the correct answers were: Code, Star, World, Moon, Earth, Hello, etc (marked in colors only for your ease of reading; for participants in the experiment, there was no marking). Each of these answers earned one point.",100.6542526,99.34574736
Math,"Participants had to solve as many Math tasks as possible within a given time. In each task, participants saw a deck of 12 cards on the screen. On the hidden side of these cards, there were additions of two single-digit numbers each. There were 6 pairs of cards whose addition gave the same result (for example, 7+1 and 6+2). Participants had to click on two cards at a time to reveal the addition on the hidden side of the card to find the matching pairs. Each time a matching pair was found, these two cards disappeared and participants earned one point. Each time non-matching cards were selected, these cards were flipped over again. Once a participant found all 6 matching pairs, another deck of 12 cards was displayed. For each detected matching pair in each task, participants earned 1 point. ","An example task is depicted below. Here, the first and the third cells on the first column add up to 3, therefore flipping those two cells earns one point. ",102.7749229,97.22507708
Memory,"Participants had to solve as many Memory tasks as possible within a given time. In each task, participants saw 12 cards on the screen. On the hidden side of these cards, there were additions of two single-digit numbers each. There were 6 pairs of cards whose addition gave the same result (for example, 7+1 and 6+2). Participants had to click on two cards at a time to reveal the addition on the hidden side of the card to find the matching pairs. Each time a matching pair was found, these two cards disappeared and participants earned one point. Each time non-matching cards were selected, these cards were flipped over again. Once a participant found all 6 matching pairs, another deck of 12 cards was displayed. For each detected matching pair in each task, participants earned 1 point. ","An example task is depicted below. Here, the first and the third cells on the first column add up to 3, therefore flipping those two cells earns one point. ",99.00990099,100.990099
Search-summation,"Participants had to solve as many Search-summation tasks as possible within a given time. In each task, there was a matrix containing 9 two-digit numbers. Participants had to find the two numbers in this matrix that sum up to 100. For each correct answer, they earned one point. ","An example task is depicted below. Here, 85 and 15 are the two numbers that add up to 100. Therefore, selecting 85 and 15 earned one point.",111.1111111,88.88888889
Letter-difference,"Participants had to solve as many Letter-difference tasks as possible within a given time. In each task, there were two 6x5 matrices. Both of these were filled with letters. While 28 of these were identical between the two matrices, in two places the letters did not match. The task was to click on the letters that did not match between the two matrices. In each task, for each of the two correctly found letters one point was awarded. ","An example task is depicted below. Here, the letters that differ are: C,D on the left matrix; H,M on the right matrix. Selecting each of these would earn one point.",118.4132623,81.58673771
Maze,"Participants had to solve as many Maze tasks as possible within a given time.
In each task, there was a maze. Using the arrow keys on the keyboard, participants had to move the pointer to the ending point.
For each correctly solved maze, they earned 5 points. ",An example task is depicted below. Solving this maze would earn 5 points.,110.619469,89.38053097
Mental-rotation,"Participants had to solve as many Mental-rotation tasks as possible within a given time. In each task, there was a reference shape and 3 candidate shapes. One of these candidate shapes was a rotated version of the reference shape. Participants had to mentally rotate the candidate shapes to find the one that matches the reference shape.
For each correct solution, they earned one point. ","An example task is depicted below. Here, the correct answer was the third option.",106.7805659,93.21943406
Multiplication,"Participants had to solve as many Multiplication tasks as possible within a given time. In each task, they were given two double- or single-digit numbers. Their task was to multiply these two numbers. For each correct answer, they earned one point. ",10 example tasks are depicted below. Each correct answer earned one point.,106.8947087,93.10529129
Number-in-Numbers," Participants had to solve as many Number-in-Numbers tasks as possible within a given time. In each task, there was a long number and a short number. The long number had 15 digits and the short number had 3 digits. By using the digits of the long number, participants needed to find as many summations as possible that add up to the short number. Each task allowed for multiple solutions. For each correct solution in each task, participants earned one point. ",An example task is depicted below. Here two of the correct answers were: 71+64 and 65+70. Each of these would earn one point.,100.5530417,99.44695827
Adding-numbers,"Participants had to solve as many Adding-numbers tasks as possible within a given time. In each task, there were five 2-digit numbers. Participants had to sum up these numbers. For each correct answer, they earned one point. An average person earned 100 points on this task. ","An example task is depicted below. Here, the correct answer is ""216"".",103.3057851,96.69421488
Quiz,"Participants had to solve as many multiple-choice questions on various topics as possible within a given time. For each question, participants were presented with four answers to choose from of which only one was correct. For each question that participants answered correctly, they received one point. ","An example task is depicted below. Here, the correct answer was ""F. Scott Fitzgerald"".",102.3017903,97.69820972
Rearrange-words,"Participants had to solve as many Rearrange-words tasks as possible within a given time. In each task, they were given 5 words. They had to rearrange these words to form a grammatically coherent sentence.For each correctly solved sentence, they earned one point. ","An example task is depicted below. Here the correct order is 4-1-3-2-5 (""The weather is fine today""). Submitting this would earn one point.",106.1571125,93.84288747
Stock-forecasting,"Participants had to forecast the price of a fictitious stock for 20 rounds. In each round, the actual price of the stock was determined based on two cues which were revealed to participants (for instance Cue_A= 10, Cue_B=20). Participants had to guess the stock price from these two cues. While these cues changed throughout the rounds, the exact relationship (price = 85+ 0.3 * Cue_A + 0.7*Cue_A) stayed the same. Although participants were told that the price depends on these two cues, the actual functional form was not communicated. Before they started the actual game, participants were given 10 examples to learn about the relationship. After participants made a guess in one round, they learned the actual stock price for this round and moved on to the next round. The closer the participants' guess was to the true price, the more points they earned. ","An example task is depicted below. One the left picture, you can see the 10 rounds of the ""Learning Stage"". On the right picture you can see one round of the actual task. Here the correct ""Stock Price"" is 129 (85+0.3*100+0.7*20). Participants who submitted 129 earned 5 points, participants who submitted 119 or 139 earned 3 points and so on.",114.9425287,85.05747126
Typing,"Participants had to solve as many Typing tasks as possible within a given time. In each task, they had to type 5 given letters into a box. For each correctly typed word, they earned one point. ",Below 5 example tasks are depicted. Each correctly typed solution earned one point.,102.0408163,97.95918367
Verify-arithmetics,"Participants had to solve as many Verify-arithmetics tasks as possible within a given time. In each task, there was an equality statement that consisted of a subtraction or an addition of 4 single-digit numbers equaling another number. Participants had to assess whether the equality statement was correct (True, False). For each correct answer, they earned one point. ","An example task is depicted below. Here the correct answer is ""False"".",99.38875913,100.6112409
Visual-memory,"Participants had to solve as many Visual-memory tasks as possible within a given time. In each task, participants saw a deck of 12 cards on the screen. The hidden side of the cards contained images of various animals. Each animal was shown on 2 cards; in other words, there were 6 pairs of cards with the image of the same animal. Participants could select two different cards at a time to find matching cards. Each time a matching pair was found, the two cards disappeared and participants earned one point. Each time non-matching cards were selected, they again flipped over and participants could try another time. In each task, there were 6 matching pairs. For each detected matching pair in each task, participants earned 1 point. ","An example task is depicted below. Here, the second cell of the first column and the third cell of the second column have the same animal behind them, therefore flipping those two cells earns one point. ",109.1703057,90.82969432
Word-in-word,"Participants had to solve as many Word-in-Word tasks as possible within a given time. In each task, there was a long word consisting of 12 letters. Participants had to form as many words as possible by rearranging the letters of this word. In each task, there were multiple solutions possible. For each correct solution in each task, participants earned one point. ","An example task is depicted below. Here, two of the correct answers are: ""Live"", ""Use"", etc. Each of these would earn one point.",95.28346832,104.7165317