Sentiment is strongly negatively correlated with community engagement across GenAI education themes (ρ=−0.72)¶
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q2 i3 Across the 17 themes, sentiment and engagement (mean comments per post) are strongly negatively correlated (Spearman ρ=−0.72, p<0.001), meaning the most negatively charged themes mobilise the most replies. → Pelin Yüce 2026
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Pelin Yüce 2026¶
Pelin Yüce, Xiangruo Dai, Rebecca Owens, Tuğrulcan Elmas. (2026). ChatGPT vs Teachers vs Students: Large-Scale Analysis of Generative AI Discourse in Education Communities on Reddit. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17712 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.17712
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RoBERTa sentiment scoring (twitter-roberta-base-sentiment-latest) across 253,222 records; engagement proxied by mean comments per post (corpus mean 16.2). The correlation is "strongly neg- atively correlated across themes (Spearman ρ=−0.72, p <0.001)". |ρ|=0.72 ≥ .37 → i=3.
"the two measures are strongly neg- atively correlated across themes (Spearman ρ=−0.72, p <0.001), meaning the most negatively charged themes are also the ones that most mobilise communities to reply."
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Sentiment is strongly negatively correlated with community engagement across GenAI education themes (ρ=−0.72) |
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Sentiment is strongly negatively correlated with community engagement across GenAI education themes (ρ=−0.72) |
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