Table 8. Dialogue and Status: Regular editors send messages in a socio-emotional speech style. Administrators are more socially detached.
Messages written | Messages received | |||||||
(Personal Pages) | Regular | Admin | U-test | p-value | Regular | Admin | U-test | p-value |
Sample Size | 6 644 | 4 086 | 6 636 | 4 086 | ||||
Relationship-orientation | ||||||||
Personal pronouns | 6.536 | 6.194 | −7.256 | 5.345 | 5.506 | −0.459 | p = 0.646 | |
Use of “I” | 3.758 | 3.519 | −4.840 | * | 2.176 | 2.512 | −14.047 | p = 0.083 |
(5478) | (5180) | |||||||
Use of “You” | 1.772 | 1.704 | −2.246 | * | 2.335 | 2.139 | −18.321 | |
(5312) | (5451) | |||||||
Use of ”Shehe” | 0.407 | 0.350 | −4.284 | * | 0.264 | 0.291 | −7.939 | |
(5266) | (5526) | |||||||
Social words | 5.151 | 4.847 | −6.831 | 5.489 | 5.187 | −19.941 | ||
Certainty | ||||||||
Certainty | 0.776 | 0.724 | −2.639 | 0.592 | 0.612 | −0.095 | p = 0.924 | |
Tentativeness | 2.358 | 2.452 | −6.922 | 2.448 | 2.398 | −9.859 | ||
Filler words | 0.004 | 0.001 | −3.641 | 0.001 | 0.001 | −13.288 | * | |
(5344) | (5399) | (5233) | (5569) | |||||
Temporal Orientation | ||||||||
Past | 2.258 | 2.235 | −1.419 | p = 0.156 | 1.730 | 1.884 | −11.967 | |
Present | 6.496 | 6.381 | −3.266 | 5.793 | 5.797 | −9.043 | * | |
(5573) | (5017) | |||||||
Future | 0.891 | 0.928 | −8.798 | 0.911 | 0.891 | −7.549 |
Numbers under the editor class names correspond to the average values over all editors in a given class. When the difference is statistically significant (p-value in bold) the larger absolute value is underlined. Cases where the averages are not informative are marked with an asterisk * and include the mean ranks Mann-Whitney U-test below the averages in parentheses.