Table 4.

Tweets containing emotion-related keywords among Twitter users with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and control users.

Emotion terms category	Twitter users with ASD (n=152), mean (SD)	Control twitter users (n=182), mean (SD)	t (df)a	P value
fear	3.105e-03 (2.822e-03)	1.975e-03 (1.553e-03)	4.410 (225)	<.001
paranoid	1.902e-04 (4.057e-04)	8.120e-05 (1.993e-04)	3.021 (211)	.003
anxious	1.914e-03 (4.275e-03)	6.486e-04 (1.230e-03)	3.529 (172)	.001
Tweets with any of the 3 emotional categories’ terms	5.154e-03 (5.760e-03)	2.679e-03 (2.282e-03)	4.981 (190)	<.001

^a2-tailed Welch’s t tests were used to compare the “mean of proportions” for each category.