Table 2.
Results of descriptive statistics for the variables.
| Category and variables | Values, mean (SD; range) | VIFa | |||
| Content-related variables | |||||
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Content readability | 71.09 (27.69; −640 to 121) | 2.48 | ||
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Title sentiment | 0.03 (0.25; −1 to 1) | 1.09 | ||
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Content sentiment | 0.06 (0.26; −1 to 1) | 1.14 | ||
| Contributor-related variables | |||||
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Participation intensity | 30.2 (61.8; 0 to 345) | 1.28 | ||
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Sociability breadth | 2437.4 (4753.05; 0 to 18,240) | 1.04 | ||
| Context-related variables | |||||
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Topic diversity | 4.16 (2.20; 1 to 32) | 2.74 | ||
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Topic intensity | 1658 (3709.6; 0 to 57,866) | 1.21 | ||
| Control variables | |||||
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Title length | 40.6 (18.8; 1 to 242) | 3.82 | ||
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Content length | 1325.6 (1091.8; 30 to 16,440) | 2.64 | ||
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Work time | 0.48 (0.50; 0 to 1) | 1.80 | ||
| Dependent variables | |||||
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Comment count | 14.9 (10.9; 0 to 137) | 3.10 | ||
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Favorite count | 5.6 (11.8; 0 to 435) | 1.41 | ||
aVIF: variance inflation factor.