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Re:Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis by lmkg on Friday April 28, 2017 @09:40AM (#14219244)
But that's the point. "She poisons" is more likely to be the plot of the story than "he poisons."
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Re:Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis by davrosthedalek on Friday April 28, 2017 @12:18PM (#14220695)
There could be a bias in the summary writers too, in that they prefer "he murders" and "she poisons" for the same method of killing.
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