Aesthetic preferences are considered highly subjective resulting in inherently noisy judgements of aesthetic objects, yet certain aspects of aesthetic judgement display convergent trends over time. This paper present a study that uses literary reviews as a proxy for aesthetic judgement in order to identify systematic components that can be attributed to bias. Specifically we find that judgement of literary quality in newspapers displays a gender bias in preference of male writers. Male reviewers have a same gender preference while female reviewer show an opposite gender preference. While alternative accounts exist of this apparent gender disparity, we argue that it reflects a cultural gender antagonism.
翻译:美学偏好被认为具有高度主观性,导致对美学物品作出固有的噪音判断,但审美判断的某些方面显示出长期的趋同趋势,本文提出一项研究,利用文学评论作为审美判断的替代物,以确定可归因于偏见的系统组成部分,具体地说,我们发现报纸对文学质量的判断显示出性别偏向于男性作家的性别偏向,男性审查者具有相同的性别偏向,而女性审查者则表现出相反的性别偏向,虽然存在这种明显的性别差异的替代说法,但我们认为,它反映了一种文化上的性别对立。