Table 1.
Descriptive statistics for 49 incidents of racial violence by type and search interest terciles
| Type of incident | Cumulative search interest | |
| Median (Q1, Q3) | Range | |
| Police killing of unarmed Black person (n = 28) | 2.9 (1.0, 6.7) | 0.1–172.7 |
| Police killing of armed Black person (n = 10) | 17.5 (1.0, 77.0) | 0.9–161.9 |
| No indictment of officer (n = 9) | 16.5 (4.5, 43.1) | 3.4–157.7 |
| Hate crime murders of Black persons (n = 2) | N/A | 0.6–53.1 |
| Search interest terciles | ||
| Low interest (n = 17) | 0.9 (0.3, 1.1) | 0.1–2.4 |
| Medium interest (n = 16) | 4.4 (3.6, 6.5) | 2.7–10.8 |
| High interest (n = 16) | 39.0 (22.9, 136.5) | 13.8–172.7 |
Q1 = first quartile. Q3 = third tercile. Nine-week cumulative search interest for each incident is on relative scale, in percentage points, where 100 indicates the week when Michael Brown received the highest search interest.