I wonder what these certain words mean to the male and female authors because clearly they agree on different words. I don't know if someone asked these people to agree with the word if it means something to their personal life but that's what I am thinking.
Also, I believe it is very important to know how this data was collected. That has a huge effect on these findings. The time period and number of essays this was collected from is important in order to know the true context of this chart. Current events affect what writers are writing about. If this was collected in the 1990's rather than the 2010's, there would be a significant difference in content.
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I’m curious as to how this data was collected. Are the words towards the bottom of the chart from essays that were rejected by a publisher? Or did the author choose not to submit them for publishing?
I wonder if the person who put this creative graph together is either male or female. Knowing this would probably help viewers get an idea on how the author of the graph takes his/her point of view. Is he/she bias or not.
I wonder if females authors write about family and love because those two topics are attention grabbers? I know that I have read books by female authors were there goal at the end of the book was to end up married with kids as if not accomplishing those two things make us less successful in life.
I assume that the middle section where the words begin to blend are the words both genders used and how they are mutual with these topics.
From this graph, I can infer that female writers tend to stick to more feminist topics but they apply them in a broad and bold way that shows that they do not stick to just one thing. Female authors like to go outside the box and speak on bolder topics that a male writer would not think of.
The story this graph is telling is that men do not think as abstract as women do. They do not go as deep into their writing as women do. Words used by women include “love” “life” “pain” and “marriage” which are touchy and abstract ideas that go beyond a topic. Men use words such as “pretty” “beautiful” and “girlfriend” that only touch lightly on a subject.
I wonder how this data was narrowed down to where one identified what words and topics male and female authors use most. I am assuming that at the top of the graph it is saying that a variety of published essays were revised multiple times in order to collect data. I could find the answers to my concerns by researching other graphs and analyze the writing using diction.
I also noticed how there are words both males and females use such as family, mother/father, girlfriend/boyfriend. I assume they both have the same ideas but very different perspectives.
I noticed woman authors are more engaged with things of the present such as love or lack thereof or obtaining love. It almost seems as they focus on the fact that is almost as a failure to be without love, as for men they seem to be more focus on career words and the time it took, family is relevant to both but mainly in the male authors.
I noticed that many of the smaller circles for each gender are more abstract ideas rather than objects or concrete ideas such as opportunities, religious, and freedom.
I have also noticed that the chart is a good interpretation of what kind of books and what gender you’ll need to seek to find a book that is based on a subject of choice. For you example if I want to read book about love and how it affects everyday life by the choices I make I would look for a book written by a female authors. Just as if I wanted to read a book about success and how career is more important then ( most of the time) love then I would pick a male author. Based on my past reading choices I believe the chart is accurate.
I can infer that the voice from male to female differs not only in society but as well as their writing. The use of different language can show the difference of the importance of life from male to female. As you move towards the center of the graph there aren't many big circles, is this because there are many relatable topic that both men and women after discuss in their essay's? It makes me wonder how men and women find things and common.
I noticed the overlapping of many bubbles, implying that there is a connection between the topics being discussed. For instance "weeks" has many smaller circles in which it overlaps such as "announced", "photos", "honeymoon", and "matter" in some way implying pregnancy.
I noticed how men tend to speak more upon topics about life, family, and people overall. The women write about more intimate topics such as marriage, love, and family. The women seem to go deeper into these topics while the men stay at a surface.
I can infer that this graph is the result of gender roles. Women authors are the face for more emotional articles, and tend to use more words that deal with “feelings”. Men have articles that discuss politics or sports, and the words they use are assertive.
I can infer from the graph that Women put more thought and importance to family and people they care for.
The story this graph is telling us is the different acknowledgments each word is given. Writers often speak about what the audience wants to read and talk about. Therefore, women talk about relationships, men, love, marriage, etc. because it is what women wonder about most. Whereas men write about people, the working field, time, life etc. because men tend to avoid the sentimental topics and focus on reality.
I notice that female and male authors both discuss different topics in their writing. The bigger the word, the more common it is for that author to talk about that subject. I also noticed that female and male authors are biased and only write about certain things that differentiate from each other.
I agree with your statement @Yesenia Lozada that the m,ale and female authors tend to choose certain topics to disclose their writing on. Also, that there is a possibility that some of these authors can be biased in a way.
Another thing I noticed was that not only did the colors correspond to the gender but by just reading the words they would use one can infer what gender would be more likely to write about family or time.
by looking at the colors i see the blue bubbles on the left and the pink bubbles on the right, typically we see the blue for boys and oink for girls. when i looked closer i saw that the bubbles have words that that gender would typically would care for more and near the middle the words get a lot smaller and the words mean less for both genders. its a strong and true message for both genders
That is very interesting, I strongly agree with your opinion given that I was thinking the same thing when you mentioned that the words in the bubbles get smaller as the words mean less to the opposite gender.
I noticed that the graph is composed of nouns. I wonder if the blue and pink bubbles represent male and females. I think that the graph is a representation on the difference between the male and female brain, for example the pink bubbles seem to be more sentimental things. I think that the overlapping bubbles represent similar ideas but the bigger bubbles on opposite sides represent the things that each gender think about the most.
While emotional words for women tend to be everywhere on the spectrum of published and unpublished, the emotional words for men tends to be unpublished.
I notice this too. Do you think that the emotional words for men tend to be unpublished because that side of them isn't as accepted in society as their more masculine side?
I noticed that there are more bubbles on the male side but females have many large bubbles. This implies that male authors use a wider range of topics while female authors tend to have greater focus on fewer topics. I also noticed that female authors tend to use more words pertaining to emotion and family compared to males. Another thing is that more personal and emotionally deep topics tend to be used more in unpublished essays than published ones
I noticed that a lot of the words we’re not traditionally correlated with Valentine’s Day. On both the female and male sides there were more social roles that one would play in another’s life while in the middle were less personal and more inanimate. The female side also had more bubbles tban the male side which makes me think that females have a more complex understanding of relationships including the darker more unhealthy ones while men do not. I wonder what questions were asked in order to receive these key words used to create this graph. What’s going on in this graph is a large group of people’s conceptualizations of love and relationships.
I noticed that the biggest circles are time and love on each side. I think they might show that women are more focused on love in their life while men are focused on time and how to manage everything going on in their life.
I noticed that the female authors have the most large bubbles while male authors have the most small bubbles, the female bubbles are more about emotions and feelings while the males are more about items or material things compared to the feelings that the females express in their bubbles. The size of the bubbles correlate to the amount of times the topic is used by the gender of the author. The middle topics are the ones that are “neutral”, where they have to be unbiased, they can’t express the feelings that people see in the other sides. It’s the deeper topics that can be both. The topics that aren’t talked about so openly in books. The female authors focus on personal things, male authors focus on the professional and materialistic items. Sex, drugs, office. That’s male side. Where love, life, heart are on the female side. The bubbles represent how often these topics are talked about, how the authors feel about them. The more they feel, the more the topics are written about.
The Middle of the graph is ‘neutral’ considering it’s gray color. Then each side parting away from the middle is in different colors. Blue for men. Pink for women. Gender is a big part of this graph.
I believe and have noticed that the more darker colored bubble representing either blue or pink show the main things that they could right about. The females side has more deeper meaning to their words compared to how borderline the men’s side is to general things. More men use their words to put together a meaning rather say what they mean right out in the open. On the outsides they may be words that are commonly used versus the inner boxes that are more in depth from their thinking. The bigger bubbles definitely represent the more talked about, like in most female written books that focus on love. The smaller bubbles representing things that aren’t as important to a bigger meaning
I think the unpublished end of the comments is more what both genders would write or speak about in private because it’s more personal and informal to them while the published end is more formal and openly talked about.
I’m confused on why some of the bubbles overlap each other on each section I understand that the middle bubbles are how both authors are related but some of the bubbles on each side overlap each other? Is there a correlation between them?
I noticed that words that you would “typically” associate with men and women are colored coated specifically, towards the stereotypical colors to either gender. It seems women tend to speak more openly about love, motherhood and their children rather than men. Men seem to be more harsh towards the subject of love/feelings.
I thought that the females thoughts were more condensed and had much bigger bubbles and their thoughts were more spiritual and feeling related while men think more about physical and literal things and objects. I wonder what the ages of the people who gave this data were, I think it could be teens to young 20’s due to the men’s lack of emotion.
I agree with what you said how the females thoughts contain more feelings and how the men's thoughts seem to be more about physical things. It does seem that the men lack emotions due to their word choice.
I agree, women often express emotional feelings and men usually don't. However, I think a part of the graph is biased because it appears as men never discuss sensitive topics, when at some point they do. I think there should be a at least one bubble revealing emotions for men. I believe that the ages could range from 20-30.
I believe the size of the bubbles are in connection with how often the words are used and the over lapping bubbles relate to which words are commonly used together. The feelings are towards the bottom for the male and seem to be emotionless in published pieces while the female authors seem to have attachment within their words.
I agree, when I look at this graph I imagine a compare and contrast chart pointing out the differences without dismissing the similarities.
I noticed that in the middle of the graph, are fewer emotional related topics, topics that aren't as personal or are just concrete. Compared to the topics that are bigger and placed in the corresponded gender, most are connected with emotion and are abstract topics.
I noticed that the female authors have less total bubbles but more large bubbles, while male authors don’t have as many large bubbles but instead have a greater amount of small bubbles. This could be suggesting that female authors tend to focus on similar topics while male authors tend to have a more diverse range of topics. I also noticed that some of the words more frequently used by women are about relationships with others like, “love, friends, life, heart, and feel,” while men tend to use words more about themselves like, “time, started, school, people, and eventually.” This could be suggesting that men’s writing styles are more self-centered, while women wrote more about others. I wonder where they got the data to make this graph and how accurate the data really is. What’s going on in this graph is the words with larger bubbles are more frequently used and the words to the right are used more frequently by women while the words in the left are used more by men. Also the farther left the words are the more blue they are and the farther right you go the more pink they are, which reinforces standard gender roles.
What is most noticeable is that women tend to write words more about feelings, while men wrote more words that are things. I’m curious about why the words that men and women use in writing are so distinctly different, and maybe it could imply something in the way our brains are developed as male or female. Also why the words we choose are different depending on our gender. The story this tells is how men and women think differently and it affects the way we write
After viewing the graph I noticed that men typically used more impersonal and general words where women used more personal and emotional words. For example one of the more common words for women was "friends" while on the other side for men was "people." I am curios to know if the words for both men and women got more personal as the graph goes out to the sides, and there are more general words for both in the middle. The graph uses contrast in color and size of the circles to demonstrate differences between words used by men and women in essays.
i notice that women write more about emotional and affectionate aspects of life while men write more about less emotional things like people and time. I wonder how accurate the graph is and where they pulled the words from. the story this graph is telling is that women and men find very different things important and think differently about the important aspects of life. women are more open to being soft and affectionate while men don't like showing too much emotion.
I notice that the the biggest the biggest circles for the females have sincerity and a deep emotional connection and the biggest circles for the males are simple verbs or nouns that don't have as impactful of a meaning. I wonder if the colors in the middle are used equally by both males and females. The graph is showing the difference in writing and word choice between different authors.
I noticed this as well. Women use words to write about people they care for and things they care for. They go into a deeper level while men don't tend to write al lot about their feelings towards other people. Their writing stays on the surface while women's show a deeper side of them.
Overall, the graph is showing what words male and female authors tend to use more. I noticed that the female others use more personal words such as love, while male authors tend to use less personal words. I wonder why there is such a contrast between what words female authors tend to use and what words male authors tend to use and are there exceptions to this contrast.
I notice on the womens side there are more words that are used a lot than on the mens side and I wonder why men use less complex and meaningful words than women. The story this graph is telling is women authors compared to men authors are staggeringly different in how their minds work and what they have in mind when they write, in other words whats more important or mature.
The deeper story is that men authors write and use many different words from women, but still have the same vocabulary at times and publish an equal amount as the women, but women use more emotional words than men do.
Words on the females authors side are centered more around human interaction and the relationships surrounding them. The men, although have less emotional topics, doesn't mean they don't discuss it as often.
I noticed that stereotypical gender roles are evident in the words associated with each gender. Female writers tend to describe situations and ideas with words that clearly tap into their inner emotions. I think this is largely due to the societal norms of males being not expected to describe how they really feel. Also, less formal word choice is used towards the unpublished side of the graph. I wonder how the data for the graph was obtained. I infer that this graph's purpose is to demonstrate the association between gender and language usage.
This graph appears to be an analysis of word choice in essays. The graph breaks down word choice by gender of author and whether or not the essay was published. I think that this graph can show the different ways that the two genders approach writing, and how word choice is effected by this.
I notice that there are bubbles with a certain topic in the center. The bubbles are different sizes which must have to do with the topic. I notice that all the blue bubbles are on the left and all the pink are on the right. I think this has something to do with a comparison between the two. I wonder why all of the bubbles are different sizes. The graph shows the difference between males and females differing in how they feel about certain words.
I notice that the ideas that are larger in size are probably ideas that were shared by more than one person. I wonder why there are different colors expressed and why those colors were chosen. In this graph it shows words expressed by women and men when heard of the topic. Compairing ideas like this can show how genders think differently.
I noticed that there a a lot of small bubbles and only a small amount of the large bubbles, the larger might be what others have a lot in common as the the smaller are just individual thoughts. I wonder why certain words are used by both women and men.The story this graph is telling and showing the words men and women commonly say in their essay.
I can infer from this graph that this focuses on a psychoanalysis of what goes on emotionally and mentally in a females and a males beyond what it shows directly. The deeper story that comes from this graph is based around the mentality that most males carry and their thoughts and acceptance of emotional disconnections based on society's standards. Whereas, the female's side centers around a constant pursuit of virtue and purity, and delves further into the emotional aspect. However, the middle both embodies that both sides feel, "isolated", "lonely", and "frightened" because they are scared of the unknown but still look to find the truth of their existence.
I noticed that this is a venn diagram of a collection of ideas or words that either females or males or both commonly mention or think about. Mainly used when they are writing essays of a specific event or based on personal experience.
I notice that women usually use more sympathetic and emotional words like "love" while males use much less emotional words like "time"
I wonder why certain words don't exist in the male authors word choices and vise versa. This graph is showing words that are used by men and women as well as in what kind of essay’s those words will be found. In addition, the size of the bubbles shows how likely that word is to be used or published.
The story this graph is telling is even the word choices of men and women are very distinct. It’s known that men and women have very different characteristics and I believe that the graph is trying to show how their different makeups carry over into their writing and the way they form their sentences.
I agree. The graph seems very stereotypical with the word choices, like for instance on the female author side the graph emphasizes words such as love and family, where as on the male side it emphasizes words like time and people.
I wonder where these words are being drawn from. Are they randomly chosen from books or are they found elsewhere?
I wonder about the accuracy of this graph and how the information was attained. Was it through surveys? If so, I believe that there would voluntary bias in this graph.
I agree. The graph seems to focus on very stereotypical aspects of gender, rather than the complexity of the human mind.
It seems that women show the more emotional and affectionate side of the relationship and want intimate relationships in the future through having kids and getting married. Men, however, seem to prefer the short-term girlfriend to have sexual relations with although some men would still like to have a wife.
I wonder if this chart information revolves around high school writers or college writers. Yet, when I take another look at the words used and the information provided it appears that this focuses on college students.
This could also be representing authors that have already been published. The data could have been taken from books that are already on the shelves.
I find it interesting that bubbles are not only in three different colors (blue, purple, and pink) of the variety of topics used in literature by female authors, but also the graph's purpose seems enlighten its readers to distinguish the different perspectives of the male and female minds as one drifts off to a more a broader aspect like time while the other clings onto more emotional topics like love.
Relating to your comment on the different perspectives, we think this may relate with stereotypes and what is supposed to appeal to men and women.
I notice that the informal words like “mom” and “literally” are used by authors that are not published while more formal words like “mother” are used by published authors more often.
The graph is depicting the usage of topics in romance essay between male and female authors. The topics vary through many different topics that can relate with romance. The far right shows the topics most commonly used with women. The middle of the graph shows the topics used by both genders. The far left is describing the topics used by mostly male authors. The smaller circles are the topics not commonly used and the bigger circles are the topics commonly used by both parties.
I can infer from the graphs that women care about more emotional value and the
mentality aspect of relationships. Yet the men mostly care about the material aspect of relationships such as school, social, and money.
Good point! I also realized that as well, that women seem to be more into emotions and men material.
True, this can show the difference in way men and women think, how men may be less emotional or caring for other humans, compared to women who show more emotion and express it more to humans. It can also show what men and women really do think about in their mind.
This chart appears to express that words that relate to family are prominent on the unpublished male side. Another strong contrast is the use of the word marriage by women and the usage of sex by men. The word marriage is quite large on the published women’s side, and the word sex is high up on the published side for males.
I find it interesting that a lot of the words used by women are connected with emotion. I wonder if the authors are American or a mixture of collected data?
What I noticed was men seem to be more logical in their word choice they use words such as "world" "talk" "time" and "moment" being very present in time and logical. Men authors don't seem to include words frequently that show emotion. This could mean that they are just naturally more logical or they all follow a theme where talking about emotion isn't as popular among men authors.
I notice that female and male authors both discuss different topics in their writing. The bigger the word, the more common it is for that author to talk about that subject. I also noticed that female and male authors are biased and only write about certain things that differentiate from each other.
I wonder how many authors/publishers they had to survey in order to find the words are used the most. Would this survey be only based off of a certain area?
Why would male authors write more about time than other things, Why is time such an important factor for them?
This graph shows the words that are commonly used throughout male and female authors. It can also imply that the darker colors are the most used words by both genders.
This may imply that male authors sale better when they speaks about bigger picture situations in life while for women they sale better when they focus on specific moments in life such as marriage or being a mother.
I wonder why there are many little bubbles in the middle that overlap and what they mean.
The see that there is a used more in published essays and a used more in unpublished essays, so I can assume the words in the middle mean they are used often, but not too often.
I can go find my answer at the top center and bottom center of the graph.
The graph consist of hundreds of bubbles with words inside and they represent words used by published and unpublished authors. The further to the left the words are means the more published male authors use them and the further to right words are means the more published women authors use them. The closer to the top the words are means the more published essays have them in there while the words closer to the bottom means the more unpublished essays have them in there.
I noticed that at the very center of the graph is the word pleaded. I wonder what that means for the mindset of authors.
I think the graph is the difference between word association when men/women hear “relationship”
I think the graph shows the words each gender, female and male, use the most in their life. This means what they value more perhaps. For example, on the female side the bubble for love is super big while the bubble for time is big on the male side. The graph is overall about each genders lives and maybe experiences they have through life as a male or female.
I think it’s interesting that female authors tended to use more emotional or traditionally loving language than male authors. I am wondering if this is due to the stigma that males have to be less emotionally driven than females
I thought it was interesting that there seemed to be more similarity in word choice on the female side than the male side. The female side seems to have larger bubbles on average than the male side. Does this mean that male authors’ stories are more unique?
This is a good point to notice. I think that this may be because women tend to converse with other women, sharing their ideas collaboratively. Women are more social and openly discuss their feelings. On the other hand, males are usually more independent and aren't as likely to talk about their thoughts to other men.
I noticed that the female side has larger bubble, most like indicating that females are more likely to repeat words they enjoy or are passionate about. those words are more lovey dovy than the male side. For example, “boyfriend” on the female side in in a relatively large bubble, while “girlfriend” in the male side is in a small bubble.
The bubbles represent the different things that both men and women go through. The blue focuses more on the issues and decisions that the men go through and think about. The pink focuses on the women’s thoughts and the words and things that are important to women. The blue has more little bubbles which means that they have a lot of issues or problems that they focus on as a whole. Women have bigger bubbles with more relating matters and it shows the big things that are present in a women’s life and the things she mostly focuses on.
I noticed that bubbles that are either closely beside one another or overlap each other are interconnected to develop a similar meaning. For instance, mother and children on the female author's perspective correlate to motherhood.
I notice that each bubble contains different words from both a male and female perspective and are different in size.
I wonder if the size of the bubbles have exact numerical value as a traditional graph would have. To elaborate my question is do the bubbles in the graph represent the exact number of times the word was used. How was the author able to differentiate the bubbles from numbers that are very close in value for instance let's say the word pain is said 52 times and the word live is said 54 times, do the bubbles losely represent these values correctly? Or were the bubbles just created without regard to the closeness in the amount of times the word was used?
I noticed that many of the words used by male authors are more vague and do not have as much intensity as the words used by female authors. Also, words that are put in the bigger bubbles and that are farther outside are possibly words that are most used by the certain gender.
I noticed that a majority of male authors who had unpublished essays used basic words such as “girl, kids, dad” while a majority of male authors who had published essays used more sophisticated words such as “woman, father,” and “wife.” On the other hand, a majority of unpublished female authors only used basic words such as “mom” while a majority of published female authors used words that involve partnership such as “marriage, children,” and “boyfriend”. Both male and female authors with published essays used words that signal love such as “cuddle, romantic,” and “admired.”
I wonder if this graph's purpose is to reflect the differences between the makeup of male brains and female brains because male seem to use more verbs; whereas, females use more emotional words.
I wonder what type of essays were analyzed in order to gather this data? Were these essays about the same subject or were the essays completely unrelated?
I wonder why published female authors used words that display more emotional connections with others such as "marriage, boyfriend," and "children" while published male authors used words that centered around a singular object such as "wife, father" and "spouse". Is it possible that the psychological theory of females displaying more emotions than males is being displayed on this graph?
Based on the graph I feel I can infer that due to cultural expectations, men and women have been conditioned to become comfortable expressing themselves in ways that are culturally acceptable based on their gender. For example, on the graph I noticed many women talk about love as opposed to a large number of men talking about time. As a culture, men are expected to be tough while women are expected to be emotional.
I find it interesting how some names can be found on the graph such as "peter," which can be found in the middle of the graph at the top, "nick" which can be found inside the word bubble of "marriage," and "john," which can be found in the middle of the graph, but more towards male authors. Why would names of specific people be included in this graph instead of simply listing the nouns/verbs/adjectives, etc. that authors use?
I notice that the graph is based off of the words that are used in most pieces of literature. It is separated by gender, male and female. I also notice that the bigger bubbles are the words that are used most.
I noticed that the female authors tend to talk more about feelings more so than the males. I also noticed that males seem to talk about things that aren't very materialistic but more things that males worry about in life. Females talk about emotions along with a different variety of words that seemingly have to do with having a family/pregnancy.
I noticed there is a pretty distinct difference between men and women in the graph where the men have less bigger bubbles compared to women which might indicate that women write about similar topics regarding the same issues which explains why women have bigger bubbles with the same words.
I notice that the different sizes of the bubbles determine which word is used the most, and the bubbles in the middle show the topics used by both genders. The colors of the bubbles also help determine which gender the words belong to while the words used by both are more of a grayish-purple color to show its neutrality.
I also notice that the larger sized bubbles are the ones most often used by unpublished authors.
I notice on the graph that it is separated by gender. It describes the differences between male and female authors most used romance novel topics. The topics from male authors vary from earlier to the game. The topics from females vary from country to dress.
I noticed that women have a more emotional word choice compared to men where they use words such as "love" "feel" and "heart" this could indicate that women are more open about their emotions when they write their pieces of work compared to men who don't seem to include many emotional word choice in their work.
I noticed that there was a pretty big contrast in the vocabulary and words used by each gender. I wonder how big the difference in men and women's vocabulary really is and is there some way we could test this? In this graph it is showing the difference in vocabulary use between males and females in published and unpublished essays.
I agree, I wonder if the accuracy of the vocabulary is correct or if it's a bit biased.
We can see that that the maternal aspects of life matter most to female author’s in their essays. Regardless of whether they were published or not, they show similarity in interests. On the other hand, male author's write more about the female’s in their lives. This may mean that the females involved in a male’s life have a significant impact on them and their writing.
I wonder what the topic of the essays were, and I also wonder what parts of the country the essays came from.
I notice that the more a word is used the bigger the circle appears. There are a large number of words that appear more important to one gender, and there are bolded words that possibly hold more significance over the other words in the graph. This graph makes me wonder. Why is there such a gap in vocabulary based on an author's gender? Why would the words no balance out when the author writes from the different characters point of views and outlooks on life or the situation at hand? On this graph, we see the words used by both female and male writers. We specifically see the differences in an authors choice of words based on gender. The left side of the graph are the words men commonly use, and on the right side of the graph are the words females commonly use. It also highlights the words that are commonly used by both genders, in the middle of the graph. This section is surprisingly smaller than one would expect.
I wonder what the different axes that separate the words signify. I also find it interesting that some words are bolded, while others are not.
I noticed that in men's published essays, one of the words is gay, which is not a popular or unpopular word, and one of the men’s words is more about midnight, while women are more on the day.
I wonder why one of the women's most published essay words, is mother, but the least published word is mom, as well as in the men’s most published essay one word was father and the least was dad.
I noticed that in men's published essays, one of the words is gay, which is not a popular or unpopular word, and one of the men’s words is more about midnight, while women are more on the day.
It seemed interesting as well as crazy that the most common word for males is "time", while for females it is "love". It could be that in a sense males think of time as the most important because they want to be able to find the time for important and many things in their life such as their relationship, work, school, etc. On the other hand for females, they may think love is some thing that they should give for everything in their lives such as marriage, children, and even there life. Those examples for each are some of the words that are the next most common word in within each gender. Makes me wonder if the way each sex structures their writing with these words is they way they view life and the importance of it.
I think that the bubbles represent the popularity of the subject with the smaller bubbles being less popular and vice versa. This can be seen how time is a very dominant subject in comparison to pace which has a very small size.
I noticed that female authors use more emotional words such as "feel" and "love" and "heart", while men use more concrete or emotionally lacking words such as "people", "talk" and "time" I also notice that women have a greater amount of larger bubbles than male authors do.
When reading and analyzing this graph, I noticed that some words are placed in bigger bubbles than others. I also noticed that there are two different colors representing a male and female audience. Some of the words pertain to a specific gender while some may not.
I am wondering how the placement of a bubble on the vertical axes is decided. I understand that the more often a published work uses a word, the higher it is placed, but what maths do they use to determine its placement. If a published wok uses word "a" 70 times and an unpublished work uses word "a" "40" times, what maths do they do to decide where on the graph it is placed.
The graph is a display/comparison of the distribution of word frequencies in male and female writings and published and unpublished essays. The larger the bubble, the higher the word frequency. It is indicative of a possible gender role in society and the nature of diction in types of essays.
If you were writing an essay around Valentine’s Day, what words might you use? Love? Mother, father, or friends? And, would you expect that females and males would use different words? You’ve now seen a graph that shows how frequently words are used by males and females for both published and unpublished essays. Where there any surprises that you noticed?
Thanks to all teachers and students who responded to interactive graph. I hope there were some students who responded from the English classes. I bet you’ll be noticing more carefully which words female and male authors select. And you might wonder how you could take something as ambiguous as language and objectively sort words into categories.
Since we continue to post responses, whenever they arrive, is there more that you notice? More that you wonder? Talk to your classmates and even read the moderators’ responses. Maybe something they say will lead to more things you notice, wonder, and conjecture.
Remember to check back on Thursday, February 15 to learn more about this graph -- and we hope to see you again next month on Tuesday, March 13 (always the second Tuesday of the month) for our next "What's Going On In This Graph?"
Signing off now -- Sharon in Boston and Jared in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. See you in March.
who is this peter that published women use so much? It's a small dot but it had to have been used enough to at least get on the graph. Is he a supporting character? Does he have any impact on the story? What about the life of peter? Does he have a good home? How is his job going? He's worked too hard not to get recognition. It's blasphemy to ignore the man who made the world of love and romance and to ignore it would be a sin against all.
Let's make a holiday for peter, he deserves it.
I noticed some words are bolder than others so I wonder if they may have more importance than the smaller ones. I think this graph is saying whic words are more commonly used by both male and female writers
I believe that the bolder words belong to the larger bubble because the bolder words describe how that topic is more commonly used by authors of that gender. For example, the usage of time on the male author's side depicts that the topics of time frequently shows up in their writings.
I think that the size of the bubble shows the liklihood of that word being used by a male or female author. So the smaller the bubble is, the less likely it is to be used. As you go farther to the left, those words are more likely to be used by male authors and as you go farther to the right, those words are more likely to be used by female authors.
I notice that the size of the bubbles representative the publishing level of words that the authors using in publish essay, the bigger bubbles showing the authors use that words more often
I also noticed that too @thao dinh about the size of the bubbles that contain different words. I too think that the bigger bubbles represent the words male and female authors use more often.
I also notices that too @thao dinh about the size of the bubbles. I agree that the size of the bubbles may indeed represent the words authors use more often.
I totally agree this can be seen in words such as time and relationship.
I think its interesting how both male & female authors have the idea to talk about a systematic problem/ occurrence that both are feeling.
I find it interesting the most sentimental and casual words that would be used by people in their informal "in" groups would be the ones used most in unpublished works rather than published. I think this graph is representing the formal and strict bias towards supposedly "professional" words rather than more informal and familiar words in published works. (Incidentally familiar is one of the more unpublished words).
This is interesting. I wonder if the pressure to get published affects the topics, purpose, word choice, etc... of the authors? And if males feel differently than females about what it takes to get published?
The reason the bubbles are getting bigger is because it is showing how often the people use the same word. So the bigger the bubble and word then its used more.
I found it interesting how the women used more sentimental words like "love" or "family" while the biggest word that the males had in common was "time", but only in the unpublished essay category.
Just like the comment below about differences in "deeper" word choice, measuring the sentimentality of a word seems like a big challenge!
What I have noticed about this graph is that women tend to use more words that relate to family or starting one entirely. Men have some words that do, but most appear to be more intimate with words like companion, affection, and even sexual. This graph makes me wonder which books and authors were used to create the graph since a lot of men tend to have possibly written about experiences, whilst the women seem to write about more mundane tasks like pregnancy, tending to a family, and dinner. What appears to be going on in the graph is that the words more commonly used by published male authors are toward the top and left side of the screen. The woman are the same as males except toward the right side instead.
Conrad: I find your idea about the purposes of the essays to be fascinating. We don't know if the essays were actually all written with the same aim or goal. Like the earlier observation about "deeper words" it would challenging to further sort these data by your idea. I wonder if it could be done?
I noticed this as well. I think this reflects how men and women are designed differently where men seem to have more tunnel vision, but women seem better at being more open about the way they feel.
This graph containing the most used words from both male and female authors is in my opinion unaccurate and could be better understood in a scatter plot. This graph contains bubbles of all sizes and it is hard to tell one from another with about an equal amount on each side. How do you feel about the graph?
I also thought this might be a better way at displaying the data. At the same time, it would be confusing to distinguish unpublished essays and published essays by gender if it was shown on a scatterplot.
It is difficult to tell one from the other, and the difference in size is hard to discern, but I feel this is the best type of graph they could have used for this. Any other graph would have required the graph to be huge with hundreds of different categories. Maybe, when hovering over a circle it should both tell you what the word says AND the frequency of the word.
I agree because the graph doesn't show a clear understanding of words that writers don't use. One cannot accurately differentiate both. I also agree because in my opinion the graph appears to be biased between what men and women talk about. I don't agree with the male side because I feel there's more to men than just concrete words. They too talk about emotion and abstract ideas. As for women, they are often mistaken as individuals who only talk about "love", they're ideas and word choice are much sophisticated and deeper.
I believe that they use larger bubbles for the more important, commonly used words of unpublished authors.
I agree that the larger bubbles are for the most commonly used words between both male and female authors but there is also a major difference between what males and females talk about.
I agree with you about larger bubbles being used to display more commonly used words, but I believe it applies to both published and unpublished authors because you have large bubbles such as "day" and "marriage" at the top of the graph towards published essays
I think the graph shows many things that go unpublished that maybe shouldn't, some of the things that go published are the same things that always go published. Everyone has already in way read something related to those words inside the bubbles, but for the bubbles closer to the unpublished are on things that one can't find many of.
I think this is an interesting way to interpret the graph! I never would have thought of this and I think it was a really good interpretation
I didn't take that in consideration. I agree that the words near the published area are frequent topics discussed and it is what we are accustomed to and the ones near unpublished are words that are usually not used in published essays and we don't get to read essays surrounding a topic that uses that word choice.
This graph shows the words used by male and female writers. On the left is words that are used by male writers and on the right is words used by females.This graph shows which words are most commonly used by certain genders. I wonder how many publishers they surveyed in order to make this graph. I wonder why some bubbles are larger than others. This graph could be useful for writers looking to expand their vocab.
I agree that the words are separated based on gender and how commonly used they are and I would like to add on that maybe the bigger bubbles show that those words are the most common among males or females in their writing.
I agree with what you noticed about both female and male author's using these words and topics in their writing. To answer your question about the size of the bubbles, I believe that the larger the bubble the more likely that certain topic is used by both male and female authors.
I find it interesting that the words more commonly associated with deeper subjects are more biased towards the unpublished side while still being on either side of the male/female category. Could this be because they are more controversial than others so writers decline from writing about them as much?
"Deeper"?!?! What an interesting idea. How would we measure that? Using qualitative measurements is tricky business. What words do you think are deep vs not deep?
I think this graph means that the bigger bubbles are published works and the smaller bubbles are unpublished works or that the big bubbles with the words inside are most often used than the smaller bubbles by writers for the New York Times.
Women use Husband more than males use girlfriend or wife which is interesting but talk a lot about father
That's an interesting point. I did not notice that before. The connotations of these different words used also have an impact on what is published and what isn't.
I would love to hear someone take a guess as to what is going on with the size of the bubbles. We could just make a scatterplot and use points. But the creators of this graph chose bubbles instead. Any thoughts?
Interesting question, Jared. If I were to take a guess at all from what I see is that maybe the larger words are what leave an impact most with readers. Perhaps more males tend to write stories about their father, or perhaps female authors choose to write about how their day was or their marriage. A lot of female authors write books on having a good family and relationship with their husband. That's just a guess. I could be totally wrong, but I thought I'd take a shot at trying to answer your question.
I’ve noticed that female writers tend to use maternal words, such as mother. Male writers tend to use paternal
words such as father. Female writers tend to use feelings words, but mostly in unpublished works. I wonder why feelings are generally used in unpublished works. Are feelings not allowed to be in society? Why aren’t feelings allowed to be introduced in society?
I don't think the graph has to do with feelings in society, but perhaps it is about gender roles. Women authors are the face for more emotional articles, and the use more "feeling" words that deal with emotion. Men have articles that discuss politics or sports, and these articles have more assertive verbs.
The verbs were mostly by males. There were a lot of smaller bubbles in the middle. The verbs were more active on the male side. It was interesting to see "talk" on the male side and "told" on the female side. Why is "nick" used in small bubble "marriage" by females? The female side was more related to relationships and love, while the male said filled with active words, "people" and "time" . The concepts of time are interesting- hours, time by males and day and night by females.
Very interesting! Active verbs! I wonder if there's a way to categorize the adjectives as well?
"Mother" and "mom" are both used more often by female authors, but the former is used far more in published essays while the latter is often in unpublished work. In fact, approximately the same relationship exists on the male side of the graph with "father" and "dad," with a similar discrepancy of usage in published and unpublished essays.
I notice that the different colors are representative of different gender (male and female identifying) authors. I wonder how the authors were determined and displayed on the graph, I assume they use some sort of alphabetical ordering system. I also wonder why the creator decided to use bubbles as opposed to points. This graph attempts to contrast the most frequently used words in published and unpublished work by male and female authors. I notice that the y-axis represent different I wonder why the person creating the graph decided to use bubbles that overlapped. Additionally, I wonder how the creator decided to place bubbles on the spectrum as there don't appear to be any quantitative axes.
More information about the axes would be great, I agree! I'm betting you could make some guesses as to the use of the bubbles and their relative sizes. That is a very useful tool!
We noticed an interesting contrast between the frequency with which the words mother vs. mom or father vs. dad (the more formal title being used more often). Additionally, male authors used the terms father and dad, while female authors utilized mom and mother.
This is definitely one of the more interesting differences on the graph!
I noticed that the graph is showing the amount of words most frequently used between genders and in published/unpublished essays. The larger the bubble, the more often the author uses it depending on the if the author is male or female. In male essays, the word relationship and time are used more in unpublished essays, and in published essays they use father and people. In female essays, they use words like love, and relationships more frequently. The middle row which is grey is a neutral word that is frequently used by moth males and females
We noticed that there are less overlapping bubbles in the middle, and there are more overlapping bubbles on the outskirts of the graph. We are wondering why this happens. Also how different would the words have been 30 years ago? We think that the graph is meant to show the differences and similarities in lexicon between genders and between unpublished and published authors.
What do you think overlapping bubbles implies?
I wonder how overlapping would change if we changed the scale.
The larger the circle, the greater the use of the wording or subject
Pink colors coordinate with words that female writers use, and blue corresponds with words that male writers use
The female words are more emotional such as: Love, Feel, Heart, Cried, Pain
The male words are more abstract such as: Time, School, People, Talk
As far as the abstract idea for males I disagree partially because those words are not abstract, abstract would be more like opportunity, financial, and time. But I can see why abstract comes to mind, although it seems that males use words to represent the important things in life to them such as, time, school, and their relationship.
I noticed that there is a gradient from male (blue) to female(pink). I think that the bigger bubbles are indicating more prominent topics in the authors lives based on gender. I also noticed that the middle bubble are commonly shared but they are smaller since they are less prominent in each genders life. I also wonder how they chose the topics and categories to base the graph off of and the published pieces and Unpublished pieces are significant because the unpublished pieces are what the authors are willing to share vs. what they are not willing to share.
HI, Sam and Syd. Those middle purple bubbles are interesting. I wonder which words are purple and why they are not pink or blue. How about which purple bubbles are used more in published or unpublished essays. Are there any purple words that surprise you?
I noticed that the female authors generally have a greater number of larger circles than male authors, including topics regarding life, love, and feelings. Men have larger circles focusing on time, father, talk, and people. The female circle of husband is bigger than the male circle of wife. I wonder from where the NY Times pulled this data and why common words such as "the", "with", and "a" are not included in the data. We wonder if they only pulled words with connotation and meaning in their respective essays. What is the genre of writing from which these words are being pulled?
women fixate on deeper emotions as opposed to men who tend to stay on the surface level of things. Men care about the world, and economy, and women care about love, and family.
I notice that women used more maternal and emotional words, whereas men had a broader range of words that were harder to find commonality in. As a result, the women had larger but fewer circles, while the men had smaller but more circles. I wonder if the words used by each gender are a reflection of gender roles and what these authors perceive they have to write about. Women spoke about topics that seem to be reserved for only women, while the men had a larger variety of topics. This shows the confinement, restrictions, and stereotypes on women in the literature world in addition to society as a whole.
Good morning, Eva. Your observation is very interesting that females have larger but fewer bubbles, while males have smaller but more bubbles. What does this imply?
Also, you mention stereotypes. Since this is data based on male and female authors, what does that say about perpetuating stereotypes?
I agree! I feel that women go to a deeper level in their books while men are not as emotionally driven. Which does not make them any less of an author, but I do find it interesting that this is the case.
Welcome to What’s Going On in This Graph?. It’s the day before Valentine’s Day and so we are offering an interactive graph with the words that may be used tomorrow.
What do you NOTICE in this graph? What may this imply?
What do you WONDER? Can you find possible answers to what you wonder in what you notice?
What’s GOING ON in this graph? What can you infer that is beyond what the graph shows directly?
The questions are intended to build on one another, so try to answer them in order. Start with “I notice” and then “I wonder,” and end with “The story this graph tells is ….”
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We think that the size of the circle represents how often the word is used, with larger circles representing words that are used more often. The location of the circle is based off of how often the words are used by males vs. females and in published vs. unpublished essays. In terms of color, pink represents a common word in a female essay, blue is male, and purple is more neutral. We wonder where this data came from: how many essays were used, which essays were they, were all words considered (we don't see words like "of" and "the" here), etc.
Welcome HGHS LIFE School. Lots of interesting noticings for first out of the box today. (Thank you Denver for responding earlier.) Did you compile these from a class discussion? Please share with us how you approach What’s Going On In This Graph?.
Are you surprised with any of the words that you think are used most frequently? Have any idea why “of” or “the” are not included? I’m wondering what you mean by “neutral” words?
In Friday’s Reveal, we’ll let you know where the data came from. You can then decide how this may have affected the
I notice that the pink is showing what females mostly think about and the bue is what males mostly think about. I wonder what the purpose of this graph is. The story that this graph is telling is what females mostly think/share about v.s. what males mostly think/share about.
Seems you are wondering what the purpose of this graph is. The New York Times published it. What could they have been trying to show or explain? Keep looking at other parts of the graph and see what else comes out. Then, let us know what you think.
I notice the graph is colorful. I wonder why there are so many words? The story the graph is telling is the main ideas about lives.
i wonder why there is allot of random words describing the guy and girl
I noctice that the graph will probably be about books because it says male and female aurthors. i wonder what type of books are wtitten bt the authors. the graph is going to try to prove what type of things that men and women have more interest in and what of the interest get published.
In this graph I notice that there are many words that is colored blue and pink. I wonder if this is going to be about a book and whats the purpose for this? I feel as if how you can publish a story written with interesting words and have a more catchy meaning also that how can you explain people and gender/sex.
i noticed the least was husband
I notice that the pink side is what the females write about, the blue side is what the males write about and the purple part is what both write about.
I wonder why the circle are different sizes.
I think that it will show the amount of what female and males write about in their essays.
i notice that there is two sides of boy and girls and how there is bubbles and i wonder why there is two sides of why is there words like does that define them or what their thinking. The story this graph is telling us is how they might show us different type of their life or of the author on her life
I notice that there are pink, blue, and purple circles with words in them. I wonder why the person who made this graph choose to put the females words in pink and the males in blue. I think the purpose of this graph is to talk about the differences between writing between males and females.
I notice that females write more about female things and males write about male things. I wonder why females don't write about male things and males don't write about female things. I think that this graph is talking about how how topics are being picked more than others.
I notice that on the left side it talks about topics that male authors typically write about. I wonder what was used to create the graph. I believe that the purpose of the graph is to show what types of topics are written more about between male and female authors.
I notice that there are two different colors, pink and blue, in the middle the both combine to make purple. I wonder what those two different colors mean and why some words are bigger than others. The story this graph is telling is the words males and females use the most, in the middle are the words both male an female use.
I noticed that some bubbles are bigger than other.I wonder what is the purpose of this graph and what is it trying to prove.The story this is telling might be the comparing the man and female
I definitely believe that the bigger bubbles are based off of the words that are used more for the males and females. The graph is maybe inferring that these are the main topics male and female authors lean toward writing about.
I notice that there are many words in different words that books are blue,pink, and purple. I wonder, why are many words further or close to a side of gender. The story that this graph is the popularity of different gender authors mainly topic and their published/ not publish them of the story, plus the popularity between each gender.
I noticed the same thing. I wondered why the graph uses the colors, specifically pink and blue, and why the graph points out the different body parts that these authors write about. I wonder if the published topics are more targeted toward the entertainment aspect of people’s lives because this attracts more readers.
I notice that blue represents male and pink represents female. I wonder why some bubbles are bigger than others. The story this graph is telling us is that male authors and female authors think differently and sometimes the same.
I said the same thing
I notice that there separated male and female, what I wonder is why does it seem like stereotypes for men and women, This graph is telling us that the world still separated male and women success.
i notice that the female authors have pink bubbles and the males have blue blue bubbles. i wonder why there are different sized bubbles. the story this graph is telling is that males and females use different types of words, some words are used more than others and some are more popular.
I agree with you because the graph is bigger
thats nice
I notice that in this is talking about the differences in man and females stereotypes. And I wonder why they put it in this way with the authors and them in published and unpublished essays. And this story is about the different types of thing that male and female do in their writing and etc. The different types of thing that male and female do in their writing and etc.
I agree how the graph is showing the differences between writing through males and females.
GREAT!!!!!!
I notice that there are two different colors and in the middle color too. I wonder why there are 3 different colors. I think this graph is trying to tell us the difference between the both and the same thoughts and expressions.
i disagree
I notice that the words are separated from color. I think the message they're trying to say is about the words genres the males or females use more. I wonder why the middle is transparent.
l notice that women like romantic topics more than males, l also wonder why women are more focued on romantic topics as for men being focused on more men stuff, the story the graph is telling is that males have different topics than females, so that would make them, like different stuff.
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HI, Kevin! Interesting that you are thinking about which words males and females used. Which words do you think are on romantic topics? Which are “men stuff”? Are there any words that surprise you – for example, they are shown as male, but you would have expected them to be female?
I wonder what you think about the size of the bubbles and the purples ones. What does size and color have to do with female and male words?
I notice that the graph separates the male and female. i wonder why they do that. the story the graph is trying to tell me is what words male and female authors use the most.
I also see that the graph separates male and female (Lil pump is trash)
i notice that there are two diffrent genders.i wonder if the size of the cricle mean a number. This graph is telling us that gender write about diffrent thing
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I noticed that some of the topics are big and are diffrent colors. I wonder why some others have the most published essays. The story this graph is telling us is about the biggest topics that both genders discuss,and the diffrences.
I notice that there are bubbles with words in them. I wonder why we are doing this in math class. This graph is about the sterotypes of men and women.
Word my dude
Great question about why we are doing this in a math class, Ezra. Why is a graph about words in a math class? What are your thoughts? Can you think of other ways words can be analyzed in a math class?
i notice that men and women are really different apart.They have different topics.Also they have some similarities
I agree with you. I also think that males and females have different thoughts but also share some as well.
I notice that it is showing the different genres that male and female authors use.I wonder why some bubbles are bigger than others.The story this graph is telling is that different genders use different themes in their novels.
l disagree with you "TAVIO"
Kevin: Could you be more specific about what you're thinking?
i noticed that there is different colors .
i wonder what the different colors mean.
i believe this graph is telling us about our different feelings.
The different colors are representing male and female
i think the graph is telling us about the author's choice of words .
i notice they separated things about what females like or sum and what males like
i agree with you
i notice bubbles with words,And i wonder why they mad this, And lastly i think this is showing us that all men and females think alike but also different.