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Sensation Seeking - Probable Difference - Less than others

What the score means: When a child obtains this score, it means the child ‘seldom’ seeks stimuli. Typically, children seek stimuli ‘frequently’ to ‘occasionally’ during everyday life.

Since all the cut scores on the Sensory Profile are based on the normal bell curve, a ‘probable difference’ score means that the child responds less than about 84% of peers, about the same as 14% of peers and more than 2% of peers. Go to the Bell Curve illustration to see how this works.