If case 1 holds, then accommodates to more than does to on  Before proceeding to analyze this interesting and fine-grained linguistic phenomenon of stylistic influence in debates, we need to statistically validate the existence of stylistic influence in online debates.
we are interested in answering the following question: In general, across various conversing pairs, is one of the users (former) forming the pair stylistically influencing (or causing the other user (latter) to accommodate) more than the extent to which he/she (the former user) is accommodating to him/her (the latter user)?