Table 5.
Correlation coefficients between items in the primary outcome of mean overall trust and all individual items for all websites except Louisiana.
| All individual items | Items in the primary outcome | |||
| Info trust | Quality | Recommend | Mean overall trust | |
| Info trust | 1.00 | 0.85 | 0.78 | 0.88 |
| Quality | 0.85 | 1.00 | 0.77 | 0.87 |
| Recommend | 0.78 | 0.77 | 1.00 | 0.85 |
| Creator confidence | 0.74 | 0.73 | 0.64 | 0.70 |
| Professional | 0.58 | 0.62 | 0.58 | 0.59 |
| Look | 0.58 | 0.60 | 0.58 | 0.59 |
| Expert info | 0.62 | 0.59 | 0.56 | 0.59 |
| Organization | 0.59 | 0.60 | 0.55 | 0.58 |
| Features | 0.53 | 0.57 | 0.53 | 0.54 |
| Interactive | 0.51 | 0.53 | 0.52 | 0.52 |
| Up to date | 0.49 | 0.52 | 0.48 | 0.50 |
| Design | 0.48 | 0.50 | 0.49 | 0.49 |
| Navigate | 0.48 | 0.51 | 0.44 | 0.48 |
| Images | 0.46 | 0.46 | 0.46 | 0.46 |
| Contact | 0.37 | 0.40 | 0.38 | 0.38 |
| Address | 0.37 | 0.36 | 0.39 | 0.37 |
| Promotional | 0.39 | 0.38 | 0.35 | 0.37 |
| Expert quote | 0.37 | 0.37 | 0.34 | 0.36 |
| Biased | 0.38 | 0.36 | 0.28 | 0.34 |
| Nonprofit | 0.37 | 0.33 | 0.31 | 0.34 |
| Ads | 0.26 | 0.29 | 0.27 | 0.27 |
| Errors | −0.07 | −0.06 | −0.08 | −0.07 |