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Table 3 Frequency and percentage distributions and descriptive statistics of scores on the JSE-S by gender

From: Eleven years of data on the Jefferson Scale of Empathy – medical student version: Japanese norm data and tentative cutoff scores

Score interval

Men (n = 836)

Women (n = 380)

Total (n = 1,216)

frequency

cumulative frequency

percentile ranks

frequency

cumulative frequency

percentile ranks

frequency

Cumulative frequency

percentile ranks

 ≤ 80

11

11

1%

3

3

 < 1%

14

14

 < 1%

81 ー 85

9

20

2%

1

4

1%

10

24

 < 2%

86 ー 90

26

46

3—5%

5

9

2%

31

55

2—4%

91 ー 95

48

94

6—11%

10

19

3—5%

58

113

5—9%

96 ー 100

79

173

12—20%

23

42

6—11%

102

215

10—17%

101 ー 105

109

282

21—33%

55

97

12—25%

164

379

18—31%

106 ー 110

135

417

34—49%

67

164

26—43%

202

581

32—47%

111 ー 115

112

529

50—63%

64

228

44—60%

176

757

48—62%

116 ー 120

139

668

64—79%

51

279

61—73%

190

947

63—77%

121 ー 125

101

769

80—91%

58

337

74—88%

159

1106

78—90%

126 ー 130

57

826

92—98%

30

367

89—96%

87

1193

91—98%

131 ー 135

6

832

99%

13

380

97—100%

19

1212

99%

 > 135

4

836

100%

0

380

100%

4

1216

100%

Mean scorea

110.0

  

112.6

  

110.8

  

SD

12.1

  

11.0

  

11.8

  

Median score

111

  

113

  

111

  

Possible range

20—140

20—140

20—140

Actual range

50—138

53—135

50—138

  1. JSE-S, Jefferson Scale of Empathy-medical student version
  2. a t1,216 = 3.6 (p = 0.0004 for testing the null hypothesis that JSE mean scores for men and women are not different)