Is It From a Man or a Woman? Be Careful When You Tweet Back
Big boys don't cry. Or talk about their emotions with their friends. Or say "cute." According to a new study, real men don't say "cute." The study looked at data and Twitter to analyze the accuracy of stereotypes, newswise.com reports. From gender to education, the words used on social media carry impressions to others. Using publicly available tweets, social psychologists and computer scientists from the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center, Germany, and Australia are helping us to parse out the stereotypes formed by word choices on Twitter. Using natural language processing (NLP), a form of artificial intelligence, the researchers show where stereotyping goes from "plausible" to wrong. In a series of studies, participants were asked to categorize the authors of tweets based solely on the content of their social media posts. In these studies, people made judgements about a writer's gender, age, education le...