Table 1 Relationship between users’ characteristics and their Twitter profile characteristics.

From: Cognitive reflection correlates with behavior on Twitter

 

Followed count

Followers count

Tweets count

Favorites count

Listed count

Tweets in the past 2 weeks

Days on Twitter

 

IRR (SE)

IRR (SE)

IRR (SE)

IRR (SE)

IRR (SE)

IRR (SE)

IRR (SE)

CRT

0.867** (0.036)

0.965 (0.045)

0.894 (0.090)

1.099 (0.082)

0.891 (0.098)

0.865 (0.096)

1.016 (0.011)

Age

1.189*** (0.045)

1.143* (0.065)

1.05 (0.081)

0.84 (0.087)

1.569*** (0.131)

1.175 (0.129)

1.096*** (0.011)

Gender (female)

1.144** (0.049)

1.129* (0.059)

1.423*** (0.10)

1.269** (0.10)

1.464*** (0.113)

1.155 (0.109)

1.033** (0.011)

Ethnicity (white)

1.129** (0.051)

1.176** (0.062)

1.215** (0.075)

1.022 (0.079)

1.546*** (0.127)

1.144 (0.096)

1.031* (0.013)

Political ideology (conservatism)

0.954 (0.046)

0.84** (0.054)

0.849 (0.087)

0.714*** (0.059)

0.879 (0.108)

0.962 (0.121)

0.967** (0.01)

US residency

0.950 (0.046)

0.984 (0.064)

0.981 (0.064)

1.038 (0.076)

1.178 (0.131)

0.83* (0.062)

1.001 (0.011)

Education (college degree)

1.011 (0.043)

1.124* (0.057)

0.976 (0.078)

0.878 (0.065)

1.198* (0.096)

0.956 (0.094)

1.01 (0.011)

Income

0.958 (0.042)

1.018 (0.049)

0.887 (0.067)

0.87 (0.074)

1.015 (0.089)

0.746** (0.067)

0.983 (0.011)

Log (time to complete the survey)

0.966 (0.048)

0.965* (0.045)

0.873 (0.093)

0.882* (0.056)

0.885 (0.122)

0.757* (0.101)

0.962** (0.011)

  1. Results are generated using a negative binomial regression model. Variables are coded as follows: gender (0 = male, 1 = female), ethnicity (0 = non-white, 1 = white), political ideology (1 = strong liberal, 5 = strong conservative), US residency (0 = non-US, 1 = US), education level (0 = less than college degree, 1 = college degree or higher), income (1 = lowest income group in the participant’s country, 10 = highest income group in the participant’s country), and time to complete the survey (log-transformed time to complete the survey, in seconds). p values are reported using two-tailed z-test and without adjustment for multi-comparison (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001; see Supplementary Tables 4–10 for exact p values and adjustment for multi-comparisons). Statistically significant results are shown in bold.
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