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The REAL ‘Stuff White People Like’

On October 3, 2010, in Sociology, by eCoylogy
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Andrew Wade: Really interesting article! Breaking down aspects of race based on text from profiles on an online dating site.

“We selected 526,000 OkCupid users at random and divided them into groups by their (self-stated) race. We then took all these people’s profile essays (280 million words in total!) and isolated the words and phrases that made each racial group’s essays statistically distinct from the others.”

Link to full article

 
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