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Table 2 Kappa figures for codes used for the inter-rater reliability process

From: ‘Mr Cummings clearly does not understand the science of genetics and should maybe go back to school on the subject’: an exploratory content analysis of the online comments beneath a controversial news story

Inter-rater code

Measure of agreement–Kappa

Comments opposing Cummings in the article

0.26

Comments supporting Cummings in the article

1

Comments opposing advisor’s comments on genetics

0.735

Comments supporting advisor’s comments on genetics

0.627

Comments supporting a comment that promotes the advisor’s genetics view

No codes present in sample

Comments supporting a comment that opposes advisor’s genetics view

0.64

Comments opposing a comment that promotes advisor’s genetics view

0.794

Comments opposing a comment that opposes advisor’s genetics view

0.82

Reader makes Nazi reference

0.874