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title: “MY472 Final Exam Part D: Testing a Substantive Hypothesis”
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To conclude this assignment, you will offer preliminary evidence regarding one potential explanation about why there is so much negativity on Facebook comments: **negative comments are widespread because they receive more engagement.** In other words, maybe negative comments generated the type of reactions on people that make them more likely to like those comments or to reply to those comments.
1. Do negative comments receive more likes than neutral or positive comments? Use any statistical or graphical methods that you consider appropriate to answer this question.
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2. Replicate the analysis above, but this time separately for Republicans and Democrats. Do you find any differences?
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