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Which Genres Are Men or Women More Likely to Review (data from Goodreads) (lemmy.world)
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[–] 7 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Male-Female Log Odds Ratio

It means log(males/females). Base 10 I suppose (not relevant to the visual)

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    I am really dying to know what author of the graphic thought is advantage of such scale instead of -100 to 100...

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    It's probabilities. So they essentially talk about a range of decimal comma positions, from 0.01 to 100.0 or 1% to 10000%

    They could have used plain counts as well though. (Not sure about the visual gradient though, as I suppose these things are impacted by Zipfs law, etc.)

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  • [–] -5 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    I think its actually gender color coded. The "male" side leans blue-ish, with the "female" side leaning towards pink.

    Using controversial forced gender roles colors as a axis is certainly a choice.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    The whole study (behavior+gender correlation) is biased. I didn't see the colors on the other screen anyway.

    For the case you had issues with understanding the log thing:

    • log(males/females) = -2 means 1:100
    • log(males/females) = -1 means 1:10
    • log(males/females) = 0 means 1:1
    • log(males/females) = 1 means 10:1
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