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Table 2 Percent of theme endorsement by each coder across all letters and salient identities of coders

From: “Dear future woman of STEM”: letters of advice from women in STEM

 

Coder 1

Coder 2

Coder 3

Coder 4

Identities

White heterosexual woman, age 21, senior undergrad in psychology, transfer student, commuter

White heterosexual male, age 21, junior/senior undergrad in psychology

White heterosexual woman, age 21, junior undergrad in psychology, has taken courses in data science and math, has TAed research methods and statistics, has invisible illness

White heterosexual woman, age 31, research assistant, PhD in Communication, MA in Theatre Education

Form community

67.31%

70.19%

  

Family support

25.00%

20.19%

  

Role model

17.31%

19.23%

  

Empowerment

67.31%

62.50%

94.00%

70.19%

Academic advice

48.08%

59.62%

  

Failure not characteristic

11.54%

11.54%

  

Everyone struggles

14.42%

24.04%

42.31%

25.00%

  1. Coders 3 and 4 only coded for the categories that did not reach sufficient agreement by the first two coders. The percentages reported are for all letters (N = 104)