[Corpora-List] gender differences in word knowledge

[Noura Farra]

Thanks Erin for pointing this out, I very much agree. As scientists we
should not be reinforcing these stereotypes even if it is just a joke.


On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Erin McKean <erin at logocracy.com> wrote:

> I know you are just joking, but the original post was about words that
> different genders recognize, not "like".
>
> We should be very careful as scientists not to reinforce gender
> stereotypes, especially such dated and offensive ones as "women are
> gold-diggers".
>
> Of course this was a light-hearted comment, but I believe that "the
> standard you walk by is the standard you accept," and I don't believe that
> "ha ha, women are gold diggers!" jokes should be standard on an academic
> mailing list.
>
> Erin
> ---------------------
> Erin McKean
> @emckean/@reverb/@wordnik
> wordnik.com
> helloreverb.com
>
>
>
> On 6/21/14, 8:15 AM, Michal Ptaszynski wrote:
>
>> 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>
>> napisa�(a):
>>
>>  Cze��, 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
>>> Benem�rita Universidad Aut�noma de Puebla, M�XICO
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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>
>>>> napisa�(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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