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KL Divergence: Hurricanes with Feminine Names are Deadlier?
http://kldivergence.blogspot.com/2014/06/hurricanes-with-feminine-names-are.html
Thursday, June 12, 2014. Hurricanes with Feminine Names are Deadlier? I've been seeing a lot of internet chatter lately about a recent study. Anyway, in this study, the researchers had volunteers rate the perceived masculinity/femininity of each name. This masculinity/femininity index (MasFem in their dataset, which you too can download here. But, hold it there, cowboy/cowgirl. What if the effects we are seeing are due to the fact that earlier storms both tended to have female names and also tended t...
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KL Divergence: June 2014
http://kldivergence.blogspot.com/2014_06_01_archive.html
Thursday, June 12, 2014. Hurricanes with Feminine Names are Deadlier? I've been seeing a lot of internet chatter lately about a recent study. Anyway, in this study, the researchers had volunteers rate the perceived masculinity/femininity of each name. This masculinity/femininity index (MasFem in their dataset, which you too can download here. But, hold it there, cowboy/cowgirl. What if the effects we are seeing are due to the fact that earlier storms both tended to have female names and also tended t...