Table 3.
t test of similarity of messages between human papillomavirus (HPV) cancer risk and sexual activity on Reddit by Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA).
| Year | Message count | Sexual similarity, mean | Cancer similarity, mean | Yearly t test score |
| 2007 | 162 | 0.10 | 0.14 | −1.70 |
| 2008 | 279 | 0.08 | 0.15 | −4.83a |
| 2009 | 558 | 0.07 | 0.13 | −6.84a |
| 2010 | 751 | 0.06 | 0.13 | −9.26a |
| 2011 | 2850 | 0.06 | 0.11 | −11.97a |
| 2012 | 3148 | 0.07 | 0.10 | −9.35a |
| 2013 | 5108 | 0.06 | 0.11 | −19.20a |
| 2014 | 4562 | 0.07 | 0.10 | −10.25a |
| 2015 | 5311 | 0.06 | 0.10 | −14.64a |
aP<.001.