Christian Rudder Quotes
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Women want men to age with them. And men always head toward youth.
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When you read findings like the one above, and see that Jamal doesn’t get the job, it’s easy to shake your head at the few racist hiring managers who’ve tilted the odds against him. But the data we see in this chapter shows racism isn’t a problem of outliers. It is pervasive.
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Not to pick a fight with any post-structuralist critics or anything like that, but a certain frame of mind can only tolerate that kind of academic stuff for [so long].
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You ask an algorithm “What aren’t black women talking about” and it tells you “tanning,” you know you did something right.
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The change Twitter has wrought on language itself is nothing compared with the change it is bringing to the study of language.
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It even has a name. It’s called WEIRD research: white, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic. And most published social research papers are WEIRD.
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When you see people in middle management dickering with their Fitbits in the elevator, you know the Quantified Self movement is here to stay.
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Computers, however, have nothing better to do; keeping track is their only job. They don't lose the scrapbook, or travel, or get drunk, or grow senile, or even blink. They just sit there and remember.
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Prejudice unchallenged is prejudice perpetuated.
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For anything to be made whole, the first step is to know what’s missing.
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Twitter actually may be improving its users’ writing, as it forces them to wring meaning from fewer letters - it embodies William Strunk’s famous dictum, Omit needless words, at the keystroke level.