Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same language (2017)

Re:Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same languag... by xioxox on Monday December 13, 2021 @06:17AM (#29538586)

Is it just me, or are most of the results in that paper rather obvious and not very useful in general, outside of social media posts. In Facebook posts, it's not surprising that men talk more about computer games and sport, and swear more. Women using more emotion words and men more object words, is again fairly obvious.

If one took an academic text, a short story, a novel, a blog post, or some other more careful piece of writing, it is unclear whether this kind of classifier would work as well.

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Re:Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same languag... by bruce343434 on Monday December 13, 2021 @07:18AM (#29538901)

> Women using more emotion words and men more object words, is again fairly obvious.

Is it? I think it's rather interesting. Though not really as much of a language dialect rather than a perspective shift, as if the men and women on average interpret the world differently.

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Re:Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same languag... by jrochkind1 on Monday December 13, 2021 @08:18AM (#29539289)

> If one took an academic text, a short story, a novel, a blog post, or some other more careful piece of writing, it is unclear whether this kind of classifier would work as well.

It should be a pretty easy test to do, for those with the trained classifier; I wonder why they haven't reported on doing it.

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