Twitter Investigation

my hypothesis:
I predict women will be more emotional over twitter, i will measure this using the word count and mixed modality

Methodology:
- women show more emotion
- longer tweets
- 10 random male and 10 random female tweets
- because its a small pool I had to randomise it to limit the bias in the data

Data:

feature                             girls                          boys                                 difference

non standard grammar      2                                7                                        5

emojis/ tech                      12                               5                                        7

words                                76                              35                                      41

percentage of
emojis used in                  16%                           14%                                    -
overall word count

Analysis:

my hypothesis is supported by a limited pool of data. For example 16% of the word count in female tweets are of mixed modalitycompared to 14% in male tweets only 2 percentage point difference this is limited however because I had limited tweets. The word count also may have effected my data as female tweets had 41 more words 85% higher than male tweets making the data difficult to judge.


Conclusion:

To conclude my hypothesis in the begging was irrelevant so i had to adapty it, when i had adapted it my data began to give me some results that slightly supported my hypothesis however because it is such a small pool of data and some of the data were retweets it may have been bias and inaccurate.

for the future:

Research first!
before deciding hypothesis and data
make sure your data cllection is precise and you limit flaws.

Transcript

Ricky and Vicky interview

I- Are we gunna see a geordie wedding this season?
V- no(.) we're not(.) I think(2)/
R-/you lost for words babe(.) is she feeling alright?(.) you feeling alright?
V- im not lost for words im just working out how to put it/
R- yeah OK!/
V- /shut up!
R- I cant believe this like
V- we dont have a wedding/
R-/its cus we're on camera this never happens/
V-/ no shut up!(.) we're having sorta like an engagement party(2) so its kinda like in the right direction for a wedding(.) but it's not a wedding(.) so we're moving towards a wedding[laughs](.)  but were still very far away from a wedding[laughs]stop putting so much pressure on us[laughs]
I- i cant think of anything worse than planing a wedding[inaudible]
V-I can't literally(.) i'm so dreading the point where i have to do something like that(.) in real life we're just said we're having an engagement party in where all our friends and all our family

in yellow- socialect, low level of formality
in Red- gives a reason for all the awkward two second pauses, gives an understanding of how people change when on camera (observers paradox)
"sorta like" not complying with relevance (grices maxims)
rhetorical questions used to imply humour