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Good thing they admitted the scope was very narrow, because there is not much you can glean from particular word uses alone. For example, if one were to tweet:
by rm_-rf_slash 10y ago
Good thing they admitted the scope was very narrow, because there is not much you can glean from particular word uses alone. For example, if one were to tweet:
"Construction work is men's work, and it always will be."
It would be immediately recognized by a human to be a misogynistic statement, even though there is no mention of women nor does the tweet use crude language.
So I wouldn't take this study too seriously, aside from the fact that women can be horrifyingly harsh to each other. Anyone who has spent time with nearly any group of women would figure that out sooner or later.