Multi-Dimensional Gender Bias Classification
Table 8: Masculine genderedness scores of Wikipedia bios. We calculate a masculine genderedness score for a Wikipedia page by taking the median px=P(x∈ABOUT:masculine) among all paragraphs x in the page, where P is the probability distribution given by the classifier. We report the average and median scores for all biographies, as well as for biographies of men and women respectively.
['[BOLD] Masculine genderedness scores Biographies', '[BOLD] Masculine genderedness scores Average', '[BOLD] Masculine genderedness scores Median']
We observe that while on average, the biographies skew largely toward masculine (the average score is 0.74), the classifier is more confident in the femininity of pages about women than it is in the masculinity of pages about men: the average feminine genderedness score for pages about women is 1−0.042=0.958, while the average masculine genderedness score for pages about men is 0.90. This might suggest that biographies about women contain more gendered text on average.