Following the data collection study, we classified the participants as novice or advanced using a median split on pre-test scores (median score was 13.50).
Using a median split means calculating the median pre-test score for the participants and using this as the threshold for defining groups: a novice is a student with a pre-test score of 13.50 or less and an advanced student has a pre-test score greater than 13.50.
In order to determine the influence of physical fitness on match activities and post-match fatigue, players from both the high- and low-standard team were matched for position (forwards and backs) before being divided into low- and high-fitness groups, using a median split, based on Yo-Yo IRT performance.
To illustrate these patterns, we divided participants using a median split into groups of frequent manga readers while growing up (N = 14, mean frequency M = 6.57 out of 7) and infrequent manga readers (N = 14, M = 3.14) and depict this in Fig. 6.
Using a median split based on the Chapman anhedonia scores, we divided our sample into two groups: low-anhedonia (LA) and high anhedonia (HA).
To illustrate this finding, we used a median split to divide participants into two groups: the more optimistic (n = 8) and the more pessimistic (n = 7), with pessimistic participants reporting significantly more pleasant relief (one-tailed t-test, p = 0.035).
Identical response patterns emerged when semitone errors were not considered to be correct, and when we analyzed relatively good and poor performers separately (i.e., using a median split based on overall performance).
In experiment 1, seniors were divided into 2 sub-groups according to their score for odor "semantic associations" (from 0 to 20: see above) using a median split procedure (given that 30 subjects were in that particular group, the median split procedure distributed the seniors into 2 groups of 15).
Duration of homelessness was dichotomized using a median split (<3 vs. ≥3 years).
Dichotomized variables were created for each measure using a median split.
