A neutral question reads male at .94. “My husband and I” reads male at .97. “My wife and I” still reads male at .95.
Wait, “My husband and I” reads as more male than a neutral question, or than “My wife and I”? That I would not have expected.
Since I doubt gay married men are so much more likely to use this kind of phrasing than straight women, I’m going to guess this is a limitation of the small model plus having an explicitly-male word causing everything-correlated-with-maleness to increase, or something?
I just explored this a bit more and yes, it appears to relate to an explicitly-gendered word.
“My husband and I” consistently reads more male than “My wife and I” by around 0.56 logits. But it reads female for “I have a husband”.
Mentioning a gendered person in these models makes it attach that gender to you, eg sister and brother or male/female names. So it seems that spouses follow the same pattern (to a smaller degree) but it depends on the phrasing. Weird!
I would assume this doesn’t replicate in larger models.
Wait, “My husband and I” reads as more male than a neutral question, or than “My wife and I”? That I would not have expected.
Since I doubt gay married men are so much more likely to use this kind of phrasing than straight women, I’m going to guess this is a limitation of the small model plus having an explicitly-male word causing everything-correlated-with-maleness to increase, or something?
I just explored this a bit more and yes, it appears to relate to an explicitly-gendered word.
“My husband and I” consistently reads more male than “My wife and I” by around 0.56 logits. But it reads female for “I have a husband”.
Mentioning a gendered person in these models makes it attach that gender to you, eg sister and brother or male/female names. So it seems that spouses follow the same pattern (to a smaller degree) but it depends on the phrasing. Weird!
I would assume this doesn’t replicate in larger models.