The category with the least amount of comments per thread, CRISPR, had
the lowest Yule I increase over time. The category with the second least
amount of comments per thread, Vaccines, had the second least increase.
However, Vaccine threads had almost 300% higher comments per thread
than CRISPR but only a 25% higher score increase rate. I do not know
the reasons for this.
When not looking at aggregates, there was a large range of both comment
levels and Yule I score levels. For one of the Vaccine threads, the Yule
I score decreased by a rate of 197.32 per day while another thread in
the same category showed a 101.47 increase per day. The thread with the
most comments and highest Yule I score, “EPA chief Scott Pruitt says
carbon dioxide is not a primary contributor to global warming” had a
whopping 9636 comments and an average daily Yule I increase of 356.80.
The link between comments and Yule I rates is visible after a cursory
glance of the results table (below), but to find out these results are
significant, I ran a significance test.