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. 2018 Jan 11;4(1):e5. doi: 10.2196/publichealth.7444

Table 2.

Weekly number of tweets posted during nonexam and exam periods by participants, by sex, ethnicity, and area of study.

Characteristics Nonexam period (weeks 1-8) Exam period (weeks 9 and 10)

Mean
SEa
Range

Mean

SE

Range
Sex

Female 14.7 11.9 0-90 14.9 2.1 0-98

Male 12.8 13.0 0-148 10.8 2.2 0-96
Ethnicity

White 7.0 2.3 0-77 7.6 2.7 0-83

African American 23.4 5.9 0-93 17.5 3.3 0-95

Latino 19.0 14.0 0-148 17.3 4.2 0-84

Asian 10.5 12.8 0-114 9.8 2.6 0-94

Other minorities 12.3 12.8 0-48 15.8 5.3 0-98
Area of study

Health science 14.3 12.4 0-113 14.6 2.3 0-94

Business 16.1 7.4 0-93 14.4 7.2 0-92

Mathematics and engineering 9.1 2.1 1-33 8.3 1.9 0-31

Social science and arts 19.0 5.3 0-148 16.8 4.0 0-98

Undeclared 11.1 3.4 0-88 9.4 3.6 0-95

aSE: standard error.