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. 2014 Aug 20;9(8):e104880. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104880

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 Inline graphic 5.345 5.506 −0.459 p = 0.646
Use of “I” 3.758 3.519 −4.840 Inline graphic* 2.176 2.512 −14.047 p = 0.083
(5478) (5180)
Use of “You” 1.772 1.704 −2.246 Inline graphic* 2.335 2.139 −18.321 Inline graphic
(5312) (5451)
Use of ”Shehe” 0.407 0.350 −4.284 Inline graphic* 0.264 0.291 −7.939 Inline graphic
(5266) (5526)
Social words 5.151 4.847 −6.831 Inline graphic 5.489 5.187 −19.941 Inline graphic
Certainty
Certainty 0.776 0.724 −2.639 Inline graphic 0.592 0.612 −0.095 p = 0.924
Tentativeness 2.358 2.452 −6.922 Inline graphic 2.448 2.398 −9.859 Inline graphic
Filler words 0.004 0.001 −3.641 Inline graphic 0.001 0.001 −13.288 Inline graphic*
(5344) (5399) (5233) (5569)
Temporal Orientation
Past 2.258 2.235 −1.419 p = 0.156 1.730 1.884 −11.967 Inline graphic
Present 6.496 6.381 −3.266 Inline graphic 5.793 5.797 −9.043 Inline graphic*
(5573) (5017)
Future 0.891 0.928 −8.798 Inline graphic 0.911 0.891 −7.549 Inline graphic

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.