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| Dimension | Kolmogorov-Smirnov | Shapiro-Wilk | ||
| Statistic | Sig. | Statistic | Sig. | |
| Wikipedia (n=64) | ||||
| Accuracy | 0.16 | 0.00 | 0.89 | 0.00 |
| References | 0.16 | 0.00 | 0.89 | 0.00 |
| Style/ Readability | 0.14 | 0.00 | 0.93 | 0.00 |
| Overall Judgment | 0.12 | 0.04 | 0.96 | 0.05 |
| Overall Quality Score | 0.29 | 0.00 | 0.78 | 0.00 |
| Alternative Encyclopaedia (n=64) | ||||
| Accuracy | 0.08 | 0.20* | 0.97 | 0.13 |
| References | 0.39 | 0.00 | 0.57 | 0.00 |
| Style/ Readability | 0.08 | 0.20* | 0.97 | 0.13 |
| Overall Judgment | 0.13 | 0.01 | 0.94 | 0.00 |
| Overall Quality Score | 0.31 | 0.00 | 0.76 | 0.00 |
*p<0.05
Table 5.2 Dimension Distributions.
The sample characteristics in each of the languages and academic disciplines are presented in Table 5.3 and 5.4 respectively.
| Alternative Encyclopaedia | Wikipedia | |||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| English | ||||
| Accuracy | 3.45 | 1.00 | 4.18 | 0.86 |
| References | 1.30 | 0.67 | 3.82 | 1.21 |
| Style/ Readability | 3.46 | 0.84 | 3.26 | 0.73 |
| Overall Judgment | 1.76 | 0.57 | 2.38 | 0.57 |
| Overall Quality Score | 0.30 | 0.45 | 0.32 | 0.29 |
| Spanish | ||||
| Accuracy | 3.46 | 0.90 | 4.00 | 0.95 |
| References | 1.52 | 1.10 | 3.40 | 1.23 |
| Style/ Readability | 3.56 | 0.92 | 3.11 | 0.93 |
| Overall Judgment | 1.85 | 0.54 | 2.27 | 0.69 |
| Overall Quality Score | 0.36 | 0.34 | 0.42 | 0.34 |
| Arabic | ||||
| Accuracy | 3.57 | 0.83 | 3.48 | 0.83 |
| References | 1.81 | 1.29 | 1.72 | 0.98 |
| Style/ Readability | 3.55 | 0.99 | 2.83 | 0.89 |
| Overall Judgment | 1.92 | 0.61 | 1.75 | 0.50 |
| Overall Quality Score | 0.34 | 0.30 | 0.38 | 0.34 |
Table 5.3 Sample characteristics according to language.
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