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Table 4 Most skewed terms by dimension

From: American politics in 3D: measuring multidimensional issue alignment in social media using social graphs and text data

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1st dimension δ1

Negative δ1 (positive skewness)

Positive δ1 (negative skewness)

biden harris(+), proud democrat(+), resist(+), bidenharris(+), resister(+), lgbtq(−), resistance(+), ally(−), blm(+), harris(+), blm(−), resist(−), resister(−), she(−), blacklivesmatter(−), resistance(−), black lives matter(+), feminist(+), black lives(+)

love president(+), maga(+), trump supporter(+), trump 2020(+), maga(n), nra(+), trump maga(+), president trump (−), trump president(+), god family country(+), maga(−), family country(+), maga kag(−), 2nd amendment(+), god country(+), trump supporter(−), americafirst(+), god bless america(+), bless america(+), kag(−)

2nd dimension δ2

Negative δ2 (positive skewness)

Positive δ2 (negative skewness)

No terms with highly positive skewness over δ2. See Fig. 3.

canadian(+), world news(+), proud mother(+), love president(+), grandkids(+), happily married(+), cowboys(+), happily(+), love animals(+), american patriot(+), maga patriot(+), trump supporter(+), love all(+), fine(+), wife mother grandmother(+), huge(+), extraordinaire(+), games(+), rock(+), life to the fullest(+)

3rd dimension δ3

Negative δ3 (positive skewness)

Positive δ3 (negative skewness)

No terms with positive skewness over δ3. See Fig. 3.

love god family(+), patriot maga(+), parler(+), love country(+), god family(+), god fearing(+), fearing(+), bless(+), flag(+), god(+), god(+), trump president(−), patriots(+), god bless(+), parler(−), bidenharris2020(+), amendment 2nd(+), love god(+)

  1. We distinguish terms uttered in profiles with compute positive (+), negative (−), and neutral (n) sentiment. We compute term skewness as the skewness of the positions of the profiles in which they appear, along dimensions δ1, δ2 & δ3. We report the 20 terms with most extreme positive and negative skewness