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Table 3 Percentages of stigmatizing posts in three periods

From: Stigma toward Wuhan people during the COVID-19 epidemic: an exploratory study based on social media

Category

Period

Mean

Std. Deviation

All (Stigmatizing)

pre-GI

2.14%

4.52%

post-GI

1.98%

2.29%

eff-GI

0.31%

0.72%

Attitude category

Infectious

pre-GI

0.30%

1.00%

post-GI

0.85%

1.41%

eff-GI

0.24%

1.05%

Irresponsible

pre-GI

1.32%

6.85%

post-GI

0.74%

1.05%

eff-GI

0.43%

1.92%

Stupid

pre-GI

1.02%

2.32%

post-GI

0.52%

0.65%

eff-GI

0.20%

0.52%