Since the sample is from "social media" it's heavily biased towards
teens, tweens & wannabes. It's not representative of language as it's
used in the real world.
On 3/23/2014 6:47 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
The thing is, Marnie, this is simply collected data, so there's no
"slant" and therefore cannot be sexist. They counted word-frequency
and sorted by the most commonly occurring words found in public media
and also separated them by sex. How they unambiguously determined the
sex of the various sources is debatable of course.
_You_ personally may not use any of the common identified as female
words and acronyms, but that doesn't affect the veracity of the data.
I don't use a lot of those "male" words either, like Call Of Duty,
Xbox, World Cup or economy.
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 2:42 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Seems to have a sexist slant, to me. Also, women and < 3 ???
Marnie aka Doe
In a message dated 3/21/2014 4:33:05 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
Just browsing stuff about social media because of something I'm doing at
work, and found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Personality_and_gender_word_cloud_for_soci
al_media.png
All very predictable, except for one thing.
Why are men so interested in cod?
B
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