Fig 1.
Distributions of similarity scores to the concepts of male (A) and female (B) well as gender biases (C) of colour terms, anchor words, and 100,000 most frequent words in our corpus. Colour terms and anchor words are marked with appropriate colours. Dashed lines indicate the 5th and 95th percentiles of the distributions (for exact values, see Table 1).
Table 1.
These are the similarity scores to the concepts of male, female, posemo, and negemo, as well as gender and valence biases of 11 colour terms and four anchor words. The position of each score in relation to the normative word population (i.e., 100,000 most frequent words) appears under “percentile”. Values in bold are below the 5th or above the 95th percentile, indicating extreme similarities or biases of these words (same data as in Figs 1 and 2).
Fig 2.
Distributions of similarity scores to the concepts of posemo, denoting positively laden words, (A) and negemo, denoting negatively laden words, (B) as well as valence biases (C) of colour terms, anchor words, and 100,000 most frequent words in our corpus. Colour terms and anchor words are marked with appropriate colours. Dashed lines indicate the 5th and 95th percentiles of the distributions (for exact values, see Table 1).