Don't Take it Personally: Analyzing Gender and Age Differences in Ratings of Online Humor

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.10898v1
• Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 12:04:36 GMT
• Title: Don't Take it Personally: Analyzing Gender and Age Differences in Ratings of Online Humor
• Authors: J. A. Meaney, Steven R. Wilson, Luis Chiruzzo, Walid Magdy
• Abstract summary: We analyze a dataset of humor and offense ratings by male and female annotators of different age groups. We find that women link humor and offense more strongly than men, and they tend to give lower humor ratings and higher offense scores. Although there were no gender or age differences in humor detection, women and older annotators signalled that they did not understand joke texts more often than men.
• Score: 12.253859107637727
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Computational humor detection systems rarely model the subjectivity of humor responses, or consider alternative reactions to humor - namely offense. We analyzed a large dataset of humor and offense ratings by male and female annotators of different age groups. We find that women link these two concepts more strongly than men, and they tend to give lower humor ratings and higher offense scores. We also find that the correlation between humor and offense increases with age. Although there were no gender or age differences in humor detection, women and older annotators signalled that they did not understand joke texts more often than men. We discuss implications for computational humor detection and downstream tasks.

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