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

Table 9. Emotions and Gender: Female Wikipedia editors express more positive emotion than male editors.

(Article Talk) Men Women Mann-Whitney U-test p-value
LIWC
Positive 2.395 2.503 −3.064 Inline graphic
Negative 1.251 1.228 −0.192 p = 0.848
Affect 3.688 3.785 −1.928 p = 0.054
Anxiety 0.168 0.167 −0.740 p = 0.459
Anger 0.474 0.432 −1.094 p = 0.274
Sadness 0.168 0.182 −0.044 p = 0.965
SentiStrength
Positive 1.776 1.800 −3.160 Inline graphic
Negative −1.929 −1.936 −0.539 p = 0.590

Expression of negative emotion is similar for men and women.

Numbers under the editor class names correspond to the average values over all editors in a given class (sample size 2 778: 2 613 men and 165 women). When the difference is statistically significant (p-value in bold) the larger absolute value is underlined.