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Study Shows Women Get Fewer Words In On Cable News

Ashique KhudaBukhsh, Rochester Institute of Technology The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea My colleagues and I used artificial intelligence to analyze hundreds of thousands of dialogues on cable news programs in order to better understand the nature of interruptions in political discussions. We found that women get substantially fewer opportunities to speak in those settings than men, and perhaps as a result they tend to interrupt more often than men. Analyzing interruptions at this scale provides meaningful insights into subtle conversational dynamics and how they vary across race, gender, occupation and political orientation.

 

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