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I wonder what the ages of the selected participants in the shown data set were. I recognized all of the male words, but I sent the female words to my girlfrien
by tetsusaiga 5y ago
I wonder what the ages of the selected participants in the shown data set were.
I recognized all of the male words, but I sent the female words to my girlfriend, and she barely knew any. She suggested that younger women might not know these words.
That could just be a self-rationalization for not knowing them, but I didn't see the paper address the issue of age much, or generational changes.
I wonder how that plays into this.
- francisofascii 5y agoI suspect the 388 participants in this study were from top educational backgrounds. These words are very niche. So a pool of average people are not going to score 80-90% success on any of those words. That may also indicate why there is a such a large difference. When you compare people who are already at the extremes, you tend to see larger differences than comparing people at the mean.
- tetsusaiga 5y agoAhh, that's a very good observation. I'm surprised that wasn't my first thought as well.