Public sentiment toward AI in education on Twitter was predominantly positive (81.65% of tweets) across 2019–2024¶
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q2 i? Across the 14,201-tweet corpus, positive sentiment accounted for 11,595 classifications (81.65%) and negative for 2,606 (18.35%). → Bagale 2025
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Bagale 2025¶
Bagale, A.; Mehjabin, N.; Ünlü, A.; Johri, A. (2025). A Longitudinal Analysis of Public Discourse on AI Ethics in Education Using Twitter Data. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12295 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.12295
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Observational sentiment analysis of the full 14,201-tweet corpus using a fine-tuned SetFit binary classifier. The article reports "positive sentiment represented 11,595 classifications (81.65%)" and interprets this as highly optimistic discourse; 95.87% of predictions met a high-confidence threshold of 0.80.
"Across the entire corpus of 14,201 tweets, positive sentiment represented 11,595 classifications (81.65%), and negative sentiment comprised the remaining 2,606 (18.35%)"
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Public sentiment toward AI in education on Twitter was predominantly positive (81.65% of tweets) across 2019–2024 |
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Public sentiment toward AI in education on Twitter was predominantly positive (81.65% of tweets) across 2019–2024 |
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