Evidence-Based Language Increases Persuasion in Online Debates: Insights from 1.6M Reddit Discussions (2013–2024)

• Analyzed 1.6M Reddit discussions to quantify evidence- vs intuition-based persuasion signals
• Built semantic embedding pipeline (Word2Vec) with cosine similarity–based feature extraction
• Applied BERTopic and logistic regression to model topic-level heterogeneity and persuasion outcomes

Recommended citation: Joohee Choi*, Hayden Arnold*, Taegyoon Kim, Jeongwoo Jang
* equal contribution
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