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Reviewer Preferences and Gender Disparities in Aesthetic Judgments
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Aesthetic preferences are considered highly subjective resulting in inherently noisy judgements of aesthetic objects, yet certain aspects of aesthetic judgement display convergent trends over time. This paper present a study that uses literary reviews as a proxy for aesthetic judgement in order to identify systematic components that can be attributed to bias. Specifically we find that judgement of literary quality in newspapers displays a gender bias in preference of male writers. Male reviewers have a same gender preference while female reviewer show an opposite gender preference. While alternative accounts exist of this apparent gender disparity, we argue that it reflects a cultural gender antagonism.
- Subjects :
- Computer Science - Computers and Society
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2206.08697
- Document Type :
- Working Paper