TABLE 4.
Types of sentiments on genome-edited food and its labeling expressed in each tweet posted from September 19 to 22, 2019a.
| Labeling |
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| Positive | Negative | Neutral | Totalb | ||
| Genome-edited food | Positive | 24 | 8 | 5 | 37 (7.0) |
| Negative | 0 | 286 | 3 | 289 (54.5) | |
| Neutral | 3 | 39 | 162 | 204 (38.5) | |
| Totalb | 27 (5.1) | 333 (62.8) | 170 (32.1) | 530 (100.0) | |
aTweet classification was performed by three researchers using the criteria in Table 1. bThe numbers in parentheses indicate percentage.