[Corpora-List] gender differences in word knowledge

[Michal Ptaszynski]

Maybe we should change names of new cosmetics, clothes and jewlery to  
contain such words women dont like - this could save our wallets :)

Michal

Dnia 20-06-2014 o 13:01:07 Jim Fidelholtz <fidelholtz at gmail.com>  
napisał(a):

> Cześć, Michal,
>
> Sure they do. They just know them as emeralds. ;)
>
> Jim
>
> James L. Fidelholtz
> Posgrado en Ciencias del Lenguaje
> Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
> Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, MÉXICO
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:25 AM, Michal Ptaszynski <
> michal.ptaszynski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Fascinating discovery! If someone asked me I would never bet that women
>> don't like smaragds :)
>>
>> --
>> Michal Ptaszynski
>>
>> Dnia 19 cze 2014 o godz. 20:14 "Marc Brysbaert"  
>> <marc.brysbaert at ugent.be>
>> napisał(a):
>>
>> For those of you who are interested in gender differences in word
>> knowledge, we have compiled a list of 24 words with the largest  
>> differences
>> between men and women (12 favoring males and 12 favoring females):
>>
>>
>>
>> http://zipf.ugent.be/crr.ugent.be/archives/1628
>>
>>
>>
>> The data are based on the first 500,000 lists completed of our  
>> vocabulary
>> test (http://vocabulary.ugent.be/).
>>
>>
>>
>> Here you find a list of 20 words not known to anyone:
>>
>>
>>
>> http://crr.ugent.be/archives/1621
>>
>>
>>
>> (in case you need some for word learning studies).
>>
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Marc Brysbaert
>>
>> Department of Experimental Psychology
>>
>> Ghent University
>>
>> Henri Dunantlaan 2
>>
>> B-9000 Gent
>>
>> Belgium
>>
>> Tel. +32 9 264 94 25
>>
>> Fax. +32 9 264 64 96
>>
>> E-mal: marc.brysbaert at ugent.be
>>
>> Website: http://crr.ugent.be/members/marc-brysbaert
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Michal PTASZYNSKI
ptaszynski at ieee.org

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