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Table 1 Mean comparisons for the YES and NO percentized hits

From: Predicting referendum results in the Big Data Era

Referendum

YES (%)

NO (%)

|t-statistic|

p-value

Scottish (monthly)

32.98

67.02

15.456

< 0.001

Scottish (weekly)

44.07

55.93

7.361

< 0.001

UK (monthly)

32.39

67.61

11.128

< 0.001

UK (weekly)

42.85

57.15

4.992

< 0.001

Italian 19/11–23/11

49.41

50.59

1.400

0.162

Italian 26/11–3/12

49.61

50.39

1.121

0.263

Italian 28/10–26/11

46.95

53.05

3.111

< 0.01

Italian 3/11–30/11

47.26

52.74

2.755

< 0.01

Italian 3/9–30/11

50.17

49.83

0.232

0.817

Turkish–France (monthly)

74.06

25.94

6.736

< 0.001

Turkish-France (weekly)

57.03

42.97

0.528

0.609

Turkish–Germany (monthly)

66.50

33.50

7.278

< 0.001

Turkish–Germany (weekly)

57.64

42.36

2.244

< 0.05

Turkish–Netherlands (monthly)

78.55

21.45

8.708

< 0.001

Turkish–Netherlands (weekly)

76.19

23.81

3.633

< 0.01