Table 6.

Hierarchical Generalized Linear Model Ordered Logistic Regressions of Sender Desirability

Covariates	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3		Model 4
	Coef.	SE a	Coef.	SE a	Coef.	SE a	Coef.	SE a
Receiver properties (N = 12,730)b
Intercept	–3.05***	0.02	–2.97***	0.02	–2.94***	0.00	–2.78***	0.03
Total incoming messages	0.00***	0.00	0.00***	0.00	0.00***	0.00	0.00***	0.00
Total outgoing messages	0.00**	0.00	0.00**	0.00	0.00*	0.00	0.00**	0.00
Female	–0.81***	0.02	–0.81***	0.02	–0.84***	0.01	–0.41***	0.02
Desirability	0.53***	0.01	0.51***	0.01	0.45***	0.01	0.39***	0.01
White (ref.)
Black					–0.18***	0.04	–0.01	0.04
Hispanic					–0.07**	0.02	0.02	0.02
Other race					0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
Missing race					0.13***	0.03	0.11***	0.03
Height (decile)					0.01**	0.00	0.00	0.00
Missing height					0.03	0.03	0.02	0.03
Number of photos					0.00*	0.00	0.00*	0.00
Smokes					0.03*	0.02	0.05**	0.02
Missing smokes					0.02	0.03	0.02	0.03
Birth year					–0.01***	0.00	0.00***	0.00
Profile length					–0.01***	0.00	–0.01***	0.00
Drinks					0.06**	0.02	0.02	0.02
Missing drinks					0.14**	0.04	0.10*	0.04
4-year degree (ref.)
High school					–0.17***	0.04	–0.07*	0.03
Some college					–0.12***	0.03	–0.06*	0.03
Postgraduate					0.03	0.02	–0.04*	0.02
Missing education					–0.04	0.03	–0.01	0.03
Current student					–0.02	0.02	0.03	0.02
Missing current student					–0.07*	0.03	–0.06*	0.03
Average body type (ref.)
Athletic					0.19***	0.02	0.14***	0.02
Thin					0.23***	0.02	0.18***	0.02
Overweight					–0.13***	0.02	–0.08***	0.02
Missing body type					0.07**	0.02	0.05*	0.02
Message properties (N = 177,404)b
Time order	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Message not reciprocated (Rec.; ref.)
Rec. 1 time	0.85***	0.02	0.74***	0.04	0.75***	0.04	0.65***	0.04
Rec. 2–5 times	1.09***	0.02	0.82***	0.04	0.83***	0.04	0.76***	0.04
Rec. >5 times	1.22***	0.02	0.82***	0.05	0.85***	0.05	0.77***	0.05
Rec. 1 × attractiveness			0.04***	0.01	0.04***	0.01	0.03**	0.01
Rec. 2–5 × attractiveness			0.10***	0.01	0.10***	0.01	0.08***	0.01
Rec. >6 × attractiveness			0.16***	0.02	0.15***	0.02	0.12***	0.02
Sender properties (N = 177,404)b
White (ref.)
Black							–1.45***	0.02
Hispanic							–0.48***	0.01
Other race							–0.56***	0.02
Missing race							–0.05*	0.02
Height (decile)							0.08***	0.00
Missing height							–0.16***	0.02
Number of photos							0.00***	0.00
Smokes							–0.14***	0.01
Missing smokes							0.06**	0.02
Birth year							0.00***	0.00
Profile length							0.03***	0.00
Drinks							0.12***	0.01
Missing drinks							0.14***	0.03
4-year degree (ref.)
High school							–0.39***	0.02
Some college							–0.16***	0.02
Postgraduate							0.10***	0.01
Missing education							0.17***	0.02
Current student							0.13***	0.01
Missing current student							–0.25***	0.02
Average body type (ref.)
Athletic							0.35***	0.01
Thin							0.25***	0.02
Overweight							–1.14***	0.02
Missing body type							–0.29***	0.02
Thresholds
φ 1	1.04***	0.01	1.04***	0.01	1.04***	0.01	1.11***	0.01
φ 2	2.01***	0.01	2.02***	0.01	2.02***	0.01	2.18***	0.01
φ 3	3.29***	0.01	3.29***	0.01	3.30***	0.01	3.60***	0.01
Level 2 variance	0.18***		0.19***		0.17***		0.13***

Note: Coef. = coefficient; ref. = reference category.

^aRobust standard errors.

^bContinuous covariates were centered at their grand means.