You'd think a "professor" of any type would automatically be skeptical of a tool who's very purpose is biased to analyze data. That's why we have SPSS, SAS and other actually neutral statistical tools to do such work. But when you put a biased professor up with a biased tools you can expect biased bullshit to be the result.
Instead of working from scratch, he relied on a well-known browser extension called Jailbreak the Patriarchy, which swaps gendered words on a web page ("he" becomes "she," "wife" becomes "husband," and so forth.) From there, he pulled a full week of New York Times articles from late February and early March 2013 — a total of around 1,400 pieces, excluding corrections and paid obituaries. Using his scripts, Caren picked out both some general metrics and specifics about the kinds of words that were used.
Yeah...instead of you know..doing his own research he uses a fucking browser extension. Where the hell do they award these degrees? Lets look at his results:
After determining the thousand most common words used in these sentences, he subtracted things like proper nouns, weighted the numbers to compensate for the larger number of male sentences, and found the 50 that were most disproportionately associated with a gender. For men, that included largely sports or political words: "male" sentences got 61 mentions of "governor," for example, compared to 2 mentions for "female" ones. "Baseball," "teammates," "bank," "economy," and "political" also skewed heavily male.
Hmmm....I see.
Well how many male governors are there in the US? Well actually it's easier to find the number of female governors ever in the US: 36. There are 50 states. The number of female governors ever is 36. But this idiot thinks that the fact that 61 mentions of governor as "male" is a sign of bias?
Lets take the rest of the list. Basball weighs heavily male? Why How could that be explained without "Patriarchy"? Oh right MLB is a male only dominion. Which means if you mention baseball in any national capacity you will mention males. Don't think that's fair? Fine? When the women can out hit the men (distance and speed). Out pitch the men (speed) Outrun the men (speed), then they can go try out for the Mets and Yankees. Then watch the female references rise. Until then it's not bias.
Same thing with "teammates" again, most National level sports are male only (WNBA a notable exception). Therefore is you mention the word teammates it is most likely in reference to those sports that have all male teams. You don't go reporting on male teams and switch the gender of the persons you report on just for kicks.
Similar reasons exist for "bank", "economy" and "political" as, as is mentioned all the time by feminists, these are areas that are heavily populated by males.
Lets look at his other findings:
On the female side, words tended to relate to fashion, entertainment, or women's reproductive capabilities. "Memoir," "novel," "fashion," and "singing" were all female-skewed words, as were "gender," "kids," and "abortion." The words "victim," "cancer," and "violence" were also female words
Well nothing surprising there either. The vast majority of straight men do not as a rule obsess over "fashion". Women have "abortions", men do not so no surprise there. Since feminism has a cottage industry in creating victims (Adria Richards anyone?) we should find it unsurprising that women are correlated with victimhood. You get what you create. Similarly since breast cancer is discussed ad-neauseum by the media, even though men are diagnosed and die of all non-gender specific cancers at higher rates than women , it should come as no surprise that cancer is "feminized". And make no mistake this is not "patriarchy's" doing. It is feminists who argued that women's health has and is ignored by male dominated medical industries. So please stop with the patriarchy arguing on that one.
"To be honest, I was a little shocked at how stereotypical the words used in the women subject sentences were," Caren writes.
Shocked? I'm not an "assistant professor" anywhere and I'm not "shocked" by any of it.
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