{"id":133,"date":"2005-11-02T16:17:05","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T20:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/11\/02\/does-wordcount-tell-us-something\/"},"modified":"2005-11-02T16:17:05","modified_gmt":"2005-11-02T20:17:05","slug":"does-wordcount-tell-us-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/11\/02\/does-wordcount-tell-us-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Does &#8220;Wordcount&#8221; tell us something?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was pondering just how much information &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordcount.org\/main.php\" target=\"_self\">wordcount<\/a>&quot; could tell us about our current state of things.&nbsp; That is, what the ranks&nbsp;of opposite words, and their use frequency, can tell us about our society.&nbsp; For instance the words <strong>love<\/strong> and <strong>hate.&nbsp; <\/strong>Does the fact that <strong>love<\/strong> has a rank of 384, and <strong>hate<\/strong> has a rank of 3107, tell us that we are more loving, or does it tell us that more people who write are practicing the romantic side of this art.&nbsp; Does the fact that <strong>war<\/strong> is ranked 304 and <strong>peace<\/strong> is ranked 1155 tell us that more people are interested in war, or that this makes sense, seeing as how the world is constantly at war.&nbsp; <strong>Man <\/strong>is ranked 142, and <strong>woman<\/strong> is ranked 393, does this tell us that man is more important than woman?&nbsp; Or perhaps that man is more corrupt and therefore has more things written about him.&nbsp; When you read the section &quot;about wordcount&quot;&nbsp; the creator claims that much can be learned about our culture from this experimental project.&nbsp; I feel that by looking at the rank of certain words, and their opposites, that a great deal can be uncovered about our society.&nbsp; <strong>Girl<\/strong> is ranked 616 and <strong>boy<\/strong> is ranked 735, the frequency is reversed as maturity sets in, and the real workings of the world come into play, or just a strange, unimportant, and laughable point?&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was pondering just how much information &quot;wordcount&quot; could tell us about our current state of things.&nbsp; That is, what the ranks&nbsp;of opposite words, and their use frequency, can tell us about our society.&nbsp; For instance the words love and hate.&nbsp; Does the fact that love has a rank of 384, and hate has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/11\/02\/does-wordcount-tell-us-something\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does &#8220;Wordcount&#8221; tell us something?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}