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. 2021 Jun 10;16(6):e0252796. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252796

Table 3. Descriptive statistics for content expression characteristics (how).

View count Number of likes Number of comments
Category N Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD
Advertisement O 22 20,267 29,992 182 184 16 21
Advertisement X 78 4,509 11,199 86 262 18 76
Graphic Expression 20 17,360 30,586 192 235 22 25
Verbal Expression 29 3,355 6,475 113 380 30 120
Textual Expression 5 6,007 8,207 68 92 18 19
None 57 6,810 14,379 72 121 9 148
Warning sign O 10 4,681 6,204 99 108 15 19
Warning sign in title 1 1,130 - 58 - 6 -
Warning sign in the description 2 5,307 5,906 199 199 29 32
Warning sign in the first-half of the video 12 3,981 5,854 82 105 13 18
YouTube Warning 5 6,311 10,506 175 332 28 34
Warning Sign X 85 8,508 19,554 104 258 17 73
Hotline O 22 4,379 7,620 146 445 45 145
Hotline in description 13 6,539 9,187 237 581 68 181
Hotline in the first half of the video 4 1,457 2,138 20 25 16 28
Hotline in second-half of the video 15 3,874 8,142 179 546 62 183
Hotline X 78 8,988 20,116 97 97 11 17
Entertainment 20 15,058 31,373 156 227 18 23
People & Blogs 10 2,411 1,744 54 44 8 7
News & Politics 24 1,875 2,805 14 17 5 7
Music 10 24,119 25,094 225 204 18 26
Science & Technology 1 1,220 - 17 - 0 -
Film & Animation 8 14,778 12,885 204 150 19 15
Gaming 1 3,891 - 56 - 5 -
Nonprofits &Activism 14 3,041 8,021 167 549 47 171
Education 12 1,424 1,877 28 38 10 18

Unit: One thousand. Numbers below one thousand are marked as “-”.