Table 5 Relationship between users’ characteristics and the use of words in different LIWC categories in tweets.

From: Cognitive reflection correlates with behavior on Twitter

 

Insight

Inhibition

Positive emotion

Negative emotion

Moral

Political

 

OR (SE)

OR (SE)

OR (SE)

OR (SE)

OR (SE)

OR (SE)

CRT

1.138*** (0.025)

1.133*** (0.028)

0.966 (0.029)

1.124*** (0.029)

1.078*** (0.017)

1.167** (0.056)

Age

0.955 (0.026)

1.100** (0.031)

1.118*** (0.028)

0.933* (0.031)

1.081*** (0.021)

1.32*** (0.062)

Gender (female)

0.973 (0.023)

0.991 (0.03)

1.200*** (0.025)

0.953 (0.026)

1.018 (0.02)

0.882* (0.059)

Ethnicity (white)

0.985 (0.018)

0.966 (0.018)

1.068** (0.02)

0.954* (0.02)

0.964 (0.021)

0.900* (0.041)

Political ideology (conservatism)

0.880*** (0.027)

0.893*** (0.032)

1.079* (0.03)

0.862*** (0.03)

0.945** (0.018)

0.777*** (0.071)

US residency

1.032 (0.02)

1.074** (0.023)

0.924*** (0.022)

1.056* (0.024)

1.022 (0.02)

1.245*** (0.053)

Education (college degree)

1.050* (0.025)

0.991 (0.034)

0.961 (0.028)

1.013 (0.028)

1.012 (0.019)

0.994 (0.059)

Income

0.995 (0.026)

1.006 (0.039)

0.945* (0.027)

0.999 (0.029)

0.989 (0.021)

0.970 (0.057)

Log (time to complete the survey)

1.047 (0.026)

1.06* (0.028)

0.935* (0.028)

1.033 (0.028)

1.015 (0.018)

1.153** (0.046)

  1. Results are generated using logistic regression model predicting if each tweet has at least one word from a given category based on users’ characteristics, including month fixed effects and clustering standard errors on user. Variables 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 1621 for exact p values and adjustment for multi-comparisons). Statistically significant results are shown in bold.