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CHAPTER 6. ANALYZING THE TALK.ABORTION NEWSGROUP 95<br />
Table 6.9: Number and Percent of Reciprocated Authors By Author Groups<br />
Mean Number of Reciprocated Authors<br />
Author Group VF F O I VI TT OT Total<br />
Very Frequent 13.73 52.20 55.40 86.00 240.20 78.07 177.33 702.93<br />
Frequent 12.07 37.77 28.55 37.85 87.55 24.48 55.52 283.78<br />
Occassional 10.27 23.44 14.04 16.12 35.23 9.63 20.89 129.61<br />
Infrequent 8.04 15.76 8.11 11.34 23.10 6.24 13.09 85.68<br />
Very Infrequent 4.93 7.85 3.83 4.98 10.95 2.94 5.77 41.24<br />
Two-time 2.63 3.62 1.71 2.20 4.81 1.77 2.84 19.58<br />
One-time 1.61 2.17 0.99 1.23 2.50 0.76 1.74 11.00<br />
All Authors 3.35 5.91 3.28 4.31 9.61 2.79 5.88 35.11<br />
Mean Percent of Reciprocated Authors<br />
Author Group VF F O I VI TT OT Total<br />
Very Frequent 92% 87% 74% 58% 35% 18% 11% 24%<br />
Frequent 80% 63% 38% 25% 13% 6% 4% 10%<br />
Occassional 68% 39% 19% 11% 5% 2% 1% 4%<br />
Infrequent 54% 26% 11% 8% 3% 1% 1% 3%<br />
Very Infrequent 33% 13% 5% 3% 2% 1% h1% 1%<br />
Two-time 18% 6% 2% 1% 1% h1% h1% 1%<br />
One-time 11% 4% 1% 1% h1% h1% h1% h1%<br />
All Authors 22% 10% 4% 3% 1% 1% h1% 1%<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir group, as well as 87 percent of <strong>the</strong> frequent and 74 percent of <strong>the</strong> occasional<br />
authors. At <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r extreme, <strong>the</strong> one-time authors reciprocated an average of<br />
2.17 very frequent authors, and 1.74 o<strong>the</strong>r one-time authors.<br />
6.3 Abortion Density and Metacommunication Density<br />
An important aspect of this project is to generate a measure of content quality.<br />
Two factors suggested a machine-generated content coding system: <strong>the</strong> size of <strong>the</strong><br />
database, which made it impractical to read and code <strong>the</strong> entire corpus of mes-