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.