As shown in Figure 2(b) , autistic participants performed slightly better (68.45 ± 11.49%) than the low-SA group (64.36 ± 8.40%; B = −0.32, 95% CI = [−0.58, −0.07], pp = .018) and showed a marginal trend toward higher performance relative to the high-SA group (64.84% ± 9.26%; B = −0.24, 95% CI = [−0.50, 0.01], pp = .056).
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This relationship remained marginally significant after controlling for familial factors such as number of siblings and socioeconomic status ( ρ (71) = −0.19, p one-sided = .051).