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. 2021 Apr 14;7(4):e26527. doi: 10.2196/26527

Table 1.

Interrater results from the creation of the training data. Tweets were randomly sampled from the regular expression-filtered data sets and duplicates were removed. Each rater was assigned a portion of overlapping tweets to allow for interrater evaluation.

Theory Unique tweets labeled (n) Tweets labeled by multiple authors (n) Agreement Cohen κ
5Ga 725 146 0.852 0.708
Gatesb 711 143 0.893 0.782
Labc 735 146 0.901 0.796
Vaxd 775 199 0.915 0.751

a5G: conspiracy theories related to 5G technology.

bGates: conspiracy theories related to Bill Gates or the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

cLab: conspiracy theories related to SARS-CoV-2 being laboratory-released or human-made.

dVax: conspiracy theories related to vaccines.