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> To figure out how much airtime is divided between men and women, we pulled the show's transcripts and categorized the gender of every person who speaks. It s
by spacehome 8y ago
> To figure out how much airtime is divided between men and women, we pulled the show's transcripts and categorized the gender of every person who speaks.
It sounds difficult to figure out the gender of the speakers from their voice. They probably made some assumptions.
- bitcurious 8y agoTranscripts are annotated text documents usually written by professional staff. An example: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/474/transcript https://www.thisamericanlife.org/474/transcript
- spacehome 8y agoThis helps how?
- bitcurious 8y agoReally? You can't imagine how knowing who is speaking would help identify the gender of who is speaking?
- rectang 8y agoThat could be -- there are more people whose genders are not as they seem than most realize. But they're surely not going on voice alone but also name, in-person impression based on appearance and so on. I once made a gender survey of several hundred people going by names, falling back to pictures in LinkedIn profiles, falling back to pronouns in forum posts referring to the person in question by people who ought to know. I assume the results were not perfect -- but they were probably good enough to be useful. (The result was 95+% male, which was enough to prove a point.)
- spacehome 8y ago"Any sufficiently advanced sarcasm is indistinguishable from sincerity." I'm gonna have to start adding sarcasm tags.
- mirimir 8y agoThey didn't just rely on voice. They assigned gender based on names. And names for those with various sexuality and gender transformations can be ambiguous. Maybe male vs female is just too limiting a distinction.
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- xapata 8y ago>> transcripts > voice Transcripts have written names, which can help. It also seems they used written words and not spoken words.