README.md

Materials, de-identified data, and analyses for "Biased inferences about gender from names" (Bethany Gardner & Sarah Brown-Schmidt, accepted at Glossa Psycholinguistics).

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If you have questions about the contents of this repository, please get in touch with me.

If you're interested in replicating or extending these results, both I and Sarah Brown-Schmidt would love to hear about it!

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• analysis/

  • divided into sections: norming, Exp1 main, Exp1 supplementary, Exp2 main, Exp2 supplementary, Exp 3 main, Exp3 supplementary, Exp4 main, Exp4 supplementary
  • each of the experiments has an RMD file rendered to MD and PDF
  • also includes function for weighted contrast coding

• data/

  • exp0_data_norming.csv is the norming data for the first names, and exp0_data_census.csv is the census data that the norming data is compared to
  • exp1_data.csv, exp2_data.csv, exp3_data.csv, and exp4_data.csv are the de-identified data files for the main experiments
  • exp1_data_about.txt, exp2_data.csv, exp3_data_about.txt, and exp4_data_about.txt are the codebooks for each of the data files

• all_analyses.RData: R object with all datasets, models, and plots

• materials/:

  • exp1_stimuli.xlsx exp2_stimuli.xlsx, and exp3-4_stimuli.xlsx are the stimuli lists for each of the experiments, with information about all of the sentence/story prompts and distributions of names into lists
  • data were collected using Qualtrics, and the surveys were exported to Qualtrics' proprietary format (.QSF) and to word documents

• supplement.pdf: supplementary materials document referenced in main paper

• plots/

  • plots.R is the code for all of the plots included in the main manuscript and supplementary materials
  • copies of main manuscript plots (responses by first name gender rating for Exps 1-4, odds ratios across all experiments, edited manually because I couldn't get the weird axis break to work in ggplot at the time)
  • copies of supplementary materials plots (norming data compared to census data, types of "Other" responses in Experiment 1)

• figures/: figures for the example stimuli/procedure and the general discussion

• extras/: several extra plots/tables that didn't make it into the final paper