Reviewer Preferences and Gender Disparities in Aesthetic Judgments
Computers and Society
2022-06-22 v2
Abstract
Aesthetic preferences are considered highly subjective resulting in inherently noisy judgements of aesthetic objects, yet certain aspects of aesthetic judgement display convergent trends over time. This paper present a study that uses literary reviews as a proxy for aesthetic judgement in order to identify systematic components that can be attributed to bias. Specifically we find that judgement of literary quality in newspapers displays a gender bias in preference of male writers. Male reviewers have a same gender preference while female reviewer show an opposite gender preference. While alternative accounts exist of this apparent gender disparity, we argue that it reflects a cultural gender antagonism.
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@article{arxiv.2206.08697,
title = {Reviewer Preferences and Gender Disparities in Aesthetic Judgments},
author = {Ida Marie Schytt Lassen and Yuri Bizzoni and Telma Peura and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen and Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.08697},
year = {2022}
}