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The Largest Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender, Ever (pudding.cool)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

By measuring dialogue, we have much more objective measure of gender inclusivity.

So what? What now? Does a book/ movie/story get better if it's 50/50?

It's nice to analyse data but what is it good for?

Now, you could rank the movies by popularity and draw the conclusion that the more men talk, the more popular the movie.

Correlation != causality

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

If the main character of a movie is a woman and 90% of dialogue is by men it likely warrants investigating why.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Wow, it's almost like statistical analysis of populations is done in order to discover trends rather than interrogate individual cases in that population.

you can pick any x from X and say "but what about this one" and yet you are still left with the task of explaining the trend in your samples.

Any guesses as to the reasons behind these trends?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Are you seriously looking at this and going "yeah but would more women having dialogue really help?"