I wouldn't be so sure, John. I'm sure it's indeed biased, but not necessarily to under-twenties. Facebook and LinkedIn, for instance, is mostly inhabited by much older folks. The teens abandoned it for Tumblr and Instagram eons ago, so now it's mostly their parents and grandparents using it. And Twitter is largely age-agnostic.
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 7:20 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
