"He kidnaps, she screams": words associated with gender in Wikipedia plot descriptions [OC]

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variance_explained on April 27th, 2017 at 20:03 UTC »

Based on analysis of 112,000 plot descriptions from English language Wikipedia. Made in ggplot2 with the dplyr and tidytext packages.

For more analysis and the code, see blog post here, or here for more about text analysis with the tidytext package.

Sargon16 on April 27th, 2017 at 20:48 UTC »

Well guys, on the downside we have murdered, kidnaps, and kill. But on the upside we have saves and rescues.

bipolaryesno on April 27th, 2017 at 20:53 UTC »

It's interesting that "she" is more related to emotions and "he" is more related to actions.