Table 4.
Conspiracy theory and metrics | Random forest | Random forest with active learning | Change | |
5Ga | ||||
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Accuracy | 0.779 | 0.783 | 0.004 |
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Recall | 0.908 | 0.872 | –0.036 |
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Precision | 0.728 | 0.744 | 0.016 |
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F1 Score | 0.808 | 0.804 | –0.004 |
Gatesb | ||||
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Accuracy | 0.622 | 0.5819 | –0.04 |
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Recall | 0.675 | 0.793 | 0.118 |
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Precision | 0.608 | 0.556 | -0.052 |
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F1 Score | 0.64 | 0.654 | 0.014 |
Labc | ||||
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Accuracy | 0.782 | 0.84 | 0.058 |
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Recall | 0.699 | 0.833 | 0.134 |
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Precision | 0.9 | 0.883 | –0.017 |
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F1 Score | 0.787 | 0.857 | 0.070 |
Vaxd | ||||
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Accuracy | 0.507 | 0.751 | 0.244 |
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Recall | 0.653 | 0.474 | –0.1786 |
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Precision | 0.170 | 0.274 | 0.104 |
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F1 Score | 0.270 | 0.347 | 0.077 |
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.