Detectors for male and female words should be combined
ProfJanetDavis opened this issue · comments
Story: As a user, I want to compare words biased towards women with words biased towards men, so that I can see if my letter is strongly biased one way or the other.
If we combine the malewords and femalewords detectors, then the summary can include a ratio. Male words should have positive valence and female words should have negative valence.
@molliem told me she always meant these word lists to be handled in a single detector.
@molliem says this really agentic (+) vs communal (-). Positive and negative are in this context, of course.
Be clear that communal words do not need to go - instead we need to add more agentic words. This is similar to how we don't want to delete effort words, but they need to be balanced with accomplishment words.
The "recruiting" language seems like it was borrowed from Textio or something. It's not appropriate to the evaluation context.
When we have a proposal for different language, run it by @molliem on Slack.