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Detectors for male and female words should be combined #65

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ProfJanetDavis opened this issue Jun 19, 2020 · 2 comments
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Detectors for male and female words should be combined #65

ProfJanetDavis opened this issue Jun 19, 2020 · 2 comments
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Story: As a user, I want to compare words biased towards women with words biased towards men, so that I can see if my letter is strongly biased one way or the other.

If we combine the malewords and femalewords detectors, then the summary can include a ratio. Male words should have positive valence and female words should have negative valence.

@molliem told me she always meant these word lists to be handled in a single detector.

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@molliem says this really agentic (+) vs communal (-). Positive and negative are in this context, of course.

Be clear that communal words do not need to go - instead we need to add more agentic words. This is similar to how we don't want to delete effort words, but they need to be balanced with accomplishment words.

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ProfJanetDavis commented Jul 31, 2020

The "recruiting" language seems like it was borrowed from Textio or something. It's not appropriate to the evaluation context.

When we have a proposal for different language, run it by @molliem on Slack.

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