Table 1.
Characteristics of 122 medical student essays submitted in 2015 and 2016 via a traditional, private essay format or social media platform, respectively.
| Private (n=55) | Social media (n=67) | t-value (P value)a | |
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| Number of essays (% women) | 30 (55%) | 34 (51%) | |
| Word count (95% CI) | 480 (380–580) | 466 (349–582) | t(120)=0.72, p=0.47 |
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| Word count - women (95% CI) | 480 (387–574) | 477 (360–595) | |
| Word count - men (95% CI) | 480 (371–588) | 454 (337–570) | |
| t-value (P value)a | t(53)=0.03, p=0.98 | t(65)= 0.84, p=0.41 | |
CI, confidence interval; t, t-value; p, p value.
a
Significance calculated by comparing private and social media submission using two-tailed t tests with 95% confidence intervals.