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