| Category | male raw frequency | female frequency | ||
| raw | normalized per 10,000 | raw | normalized per 10,000 | |
| Approximative hedges | 136 | 95.19 | 114 | 92.16 |
| Self-mention hedges | 21 | 14.70 | 8 | 6.47 |
| Evidential verb hedges | 11 | 7.70 | 6 | 4.48 |
| Modal hedges | 144 | 100.79 | 114 | 92.16 |
| Total | 312 | 218.38 | 242 | 195.63 |