Ten million status updates from tens of thousands of Facebook users seem to confirm it: men and women do speak a different language.
A team of computer scientists and psychologists from the universities of Pennsylvania, Melbourne, Cambridge and Stony Brook analyzed two years’ worth of status updates to try to discern the differences in how men and women express themselves. In the first study, the team looked at groups of semantically similar words (known as “topics”) across 10 million status updates from more than 52,000 users. They found that the language used more by women was “interpersonally warmer, more compassionate and polite,” whereas that used more by men was “colder, more hostile, and impersonal.”
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