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Replace wording example about sharks (negative association word) #243

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baeolophus opened this issue Mar 23, 2022 · 3 comments
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Replace wording example about sharks (negative association word) #243

baeolophus opened this issue Mar 23, 2022 · 3 comments

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I helped with the MATLAB lesson for the first time today and was struck by the string replacement example that uses "big shark" and "terror shark" in the Loops lesson. Negative portrayals of sharks in media continues to be a problem in public support (or lack thereof) shark conservation (peer-reviewed summary paper here). I would like to suggest replacing "terror" with "little" in lines 498, 501, 518, and 519. The new example will still replace a word, but uses neutral words about size instead of value-laden "terror". Thanks for considering!
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gcapes commented Mar 24, 2022

A PR would be welcome :)

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Pull request here: https://github.com/swcarpentry/matlab-novice-inflammation/pull/247/files #247 Thanks!

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gcapes commented Feb 10, 2023

Fixed in #247.

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