To produce these findings, Kejriwal and Nagaraj accessed data through the Gutenberg Project corpus which contains English-language 3,000 books, an added attempt to mitigate researcher bias. The genre of books ranged from adventure and, to mystery and romance, and in varied mediums, including novels, short stories, and poetry.
"Gender bias is very real, and when we see females four times less in literature, it has a subliminal impact on people consuming the culture," said Kejriwal, a research assistant professor in the Daniel J Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering."We quantitatively revealed in an indirect way in which bias persists in culture."
The team's diversified methods to measure and determine female representation in literature did not come without limitations, however, when authors are neither male or female."When we published the dataset paper, reviewers had this criticism that we were ignoring non-dichotomous genders," said Kejriwal."But we agreed with them, in a way. We think it's completely suppressed, and we won't be able to find many [transgender individuals or non-dichotomous individuals].
"Even with misattributions, the words associated with women were adjectives like 'weak,' 'amiable,' 'pretty,' and sometimes 'stupid,'" said Nagaraj."For male characters, the words describing them included 'leadership,' 'power,' 'strength' and 'politics.'"
USC I bet that's not true for novels, especially the dirty ones
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USC What is the purpose of this study? How does it benefit anyone? It surprising to see it is only four times more. Women's rights are new when compared to the written word. You would think it would be less 🤔
USC So there are only two genders?
USC So what? WTF does that have to do with any useful information?
USC Is this a sociology account now?
USC How about not spending research grants on PC frivolity? There are still plenty of people dying of cancer despite Lyin' Biden's election promise to cure it.
USC These types of 'studies' divide the world based off unless 'studies'. Why could you not have spent that money on education I school of great need instead. Why always divide people on useless information that takes us backwards!
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