Table 3.
Characteristics of question posts based on SO metrics.
| Variable | Categories | COVID-19 posts |
General posts |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | ||
| Answered | No | 708 | 32.00 | 819 | 37.00 |
| Yes | 1505 | 68.00 | 1394 | 63.00 | |
| Total | 2213 | 100 | 2213 | 100 | |
| Code Snippet | No | 282 | 12.74 | 392 | 17.71 |
| Yes | 1931 | 87.26 | 1821 | 82.79 | |
| Total | 2213 | 100 | 2213 | 100 | |
| Number of comments | M (SD) | 1.72 (2.24) | 1.62 (2.44) | ||
| Mdn [min, max] | 1 [0,21] | 1 [0,21] | |||
| Number of question views | M (SD) | 86.59 (160.52) | 228.05 (4044.9) | ||
| Mdn [min, max] | 50 [7,3653] | 41 [3,182293] | |||
Note: M, SD, Mdn, min and max represent the mean, standard deviation, median, minimum and maximum values of each examined distribution, respectively.