Proof and certainty: Authors with science-consistent messages frame science issues differently than authors with science-inconsistent messages

This is the Read Me file for online materials that supplement Proof and certainty: Authors with science-consistent messages frame science issues differently than authors with science-inconsistent messages by Ralph M. Barnes & Yanwen Xu.

The data is presented in three CSV files. The three file names are:
raw document data
raw cognate data
proof cognate data for analysis

Brief column labels can be found in row #2 for all three files. More detailed column labels can be found in row #1 of all three files.

The coding rubrics are presented in two CSV files. The two file names are:
rubric for proof cognates
rubric for documents

Three additional tables can be found in a pdf file named:
Supplemental tables
Table S1 in the Supplemental tables file contains a list of all the search strings used to select the source documents.

Source documents have not been uploaded and archived on this site because of copyright issues. However, copies of the source documents may obtained by contacting Ralph Barnes. His current email addresses are:
ralph.barnes@montana.edu
barnes.183@hotmail.com