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It largely follows gender stereotypical interest lines. In this one, my wife describes the list as "fashion related stuff". Here's another older list from a dif
by lhorie 5y ago
It largely follows gender stereotypical interest lines. In this one, my wife describes the list as "fashion related stuff". Here's another older list from a different study[0]
Higher recognition rates by males:
- codec (88, 48)
- solenoid (87, 54)
- golem (89, 56)
- mach (93, 63)
- humvee (88, 58)
- claymore (87, 589
- scimitar (86, 58)
- kevlar (93, 65)
- paladin (93, 66)
- bolshevism (85, 60)
- biped (86, 61)
- dreadnought (90, 66)
Higher recognition rates by females:
- taffeta (48, 87)
- tresses (61, 93)
- bottlebrush (58, 89)
- flouncy (55, 86)
- mascarpone (60, 90)
- decoupage (56, 86)
- progesterone (63, 92)
- wisteria (61, 89)
- taupe (66, 93)
- flouncing (67, 94)
- peony (70, 96)
- bodice (71, 96)
[0] https://www.insider.com/gender-and-vocabulary-analysis-2014-6 https://www.insider.com/gender-and-vocabulary-analysis-2014-...
- kelnos 5y agoInteresting. I (male) recognize all but one of the "female" words in this list (and can define most of them), but recognized only 6 from the list in the article, and could define only one or two. I wonder why the article's list is so much "harder". (I recognized and could define all of the "male" words in both lists, so I do seem to conform to this stereotype...)
- pedrosorio 5y agoThe recognition rates in the comment you’re replying to are much higher than the ones in the article.
- cryptonector 5y agoI recognize all of them. I could recall the meanings of only some.
- chillingeffect 5y agoI remember from another study that "cybernetic" and "taupe" were highly polarized. which direction is an exercise left for the reader :)
- pbhjpbhj 5y ago"taupe" was a punchline of sorts in a very popular British TV advert back when we had 4 (maybe 3?) channels. So, people of a certain age in UK would all likely know it from that.
- wrycoder 5y agoOlder man here, c'mon, those are all easy.
- russellbeattie 5y agoAny thoughts on why Chrome on Android will offer to "translate" some of the words if highlighted, and "define" for others? Word frequency?