Tests revealed that during their fetal development, boys with autism were exposed to even higher levels of sex steroid hormones
than the control group of boys.
Participants in the treatment group were significantly less
likely than control group participants to exhibit evidence of serious conduct problems and had higher social cognition.
Although the intensity scores of the intervention group fell more
than the control group at the immediate follow up, this difference was initially not significant (table 3).
These anecdotes are supported by research showing that students who are taught to develop mental imagery of text do better
than control groups on tests of comprehension and recall.
The first group also scored up to 17 percent
lower than the control group on multiple - choice tests, evidence that engaging in messaging unrelated to the class hurts student learning.
The therapy group reported a greater improvement in ADHD symptoms
than the control group did, and, after a year, the symptoms of those who received therapy had decreased by 50 %.
The six returning volunteers who had previously received stimulation were on average 28 %, or more than a second,
faster than the control group at correctly answering the problems involving calculation.
All three groups lost fat, but the 800 mg calcium eaters lost more
fat than the control group, and the really high - calcium dairy eaters lost the most fat.
Analysis showed that after the intervention, mothers in the Healthy Families group were significantly less likely to have babies categorized as low birth weight
than control group mothers.
Parents in the intervention group displayed significantly fewer inappropriate or negative parenting behaviors and marginally significantly greater child - directed praise statements
than control group parents.
Intervention group staff had significantly higher odds of reporting that they would seek professional help for alcohol - related
problems than the control group at waves 2 and 3.
All mothers in this group had been implicated in severe maltreatment and were found to experience significantly higher levels of
stress than the control group.
The research group showed significantly more improvement in their
skills than the control group for screening, brief interventions, but not for referral.
In the second test, with 24 hour deprivation and cookie feeding, rats that had been in sweet restricted cycles ate almost 20 % more
food than the control group.
For example, by age 22, treated children had 0.6 more years of
schooling than the control group, and full - time school enrollment was five times higher among treated children.
After one month, participants in the intervention group sat down for 71 minutes less in an 8 hour work
day than the control group.
And when the researchers administered antibiotics to young mice, they discovered the mice were significantly more likely to develop peanut
allergies than the control group.
Another showed that 16 weeks of physical activity increased sleep quality and helped 17 people with insomnia sleep longer and more
deeply than the control group.
People using daily gratitude journals reported more satisfaction with their lives and were more optimistic about the
future than the control group.
Although children in the treatment group and family literacy group reported reading more
books than the control group, there was no significant effect on reading comprehension and vocabulary.
On all outcome measures, the intervention group means were higher
than the control group means, although statistical tests did not yield significant differences between the groups.