Table 2.
Correlation between Twitter-based and benchmark estimates of gun ownership.
| Sample and subset | Pearson correlation | Spearman rank correlation | ||||
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r | P value | ρ | P value | ||
| Unadjusted | ||||||
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All states | 0.358 | .01 | 0.438 | .001 | |
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States with ≥100 Twitter users | 0.632 | <.001 | 0.639 | <.001 | |
| Gender-adjusted | ||||||
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All states | 0.355 | .01 | 0.427 | .002 | |
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States with ≥100 Twitter users | 0.624 | <.001 | 0.633 | <.001 | |