Through a Gender Lens: Learning Usage Patterns of Emojis from Large-Scale Android Users https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.05546.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.05546.pd

Through a Gender Lens: Learning Usage Patterns of Emojis from Large-Scale Android Users https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.05546.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.05546.pdf > Gender difference is always an important research topic in sociological and psychological studies from which there are many interesting findings. For example, females are evidenced to show a greater number of facial activities than males [40, 41] and observers can identify emotional states more accurately from female faces than from male faces [39]. With the advancement of data science methods, these hypotheses and conjectures about gender differences are measured and tested quantitatively through analyzing online behaviors of users at scale. For example, when the “facial expressions" (emoticons) become popular in text, researchers investigated the relationship between gender and emoticon usage and found superiority of females in using emoticons [44, 48, 54], which verifies the sociological findings about non-verbal expressivity of females [2, 18, 29]. Not that this means YOU specifically need to like emoji, but it's probably important to recognize that preferences and usage patterns differ by gender (and neurotype). Male minds (for whatever reasons) are often less likely to use and rely on them. Interpretation of any data is fraught (nature? nurture?), but it may be that emojis make documents more legible to certain minds, which perhaps have different optimal conditions in which they process information. So "Emoji are an anti-pattern" perhaps only holds true for neurotypes that don't depend as much on non-verbal signals when processing information. The opposite may be true for others. E.g. Cultural norms aside, maybe emoji in a resume would actually help certain hiring managers select the best candidates. (heh that's probably a more dramatic claim that I'd actually stake my case on :) )