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. 2019 Apr 16;34(5):684–691. doi: 10.1007/s11606-019-04889-9

Table 3.

Important and Unique Descriptors, Among Commonly Used Words

Men (TF-IDF) Women (TF-IDF) Non-URM (TF-IDF) URM (TF-IDF)
Energetic (0.72) Friendly (0.64) Energetic (0.64) Friendly (0.76)
Friendly (0.68) Energetic (0.62) Friendly (0.61) Energetic (0.71)
Fine (0.55) Dependable (0.58) Fine (0.56) Dependable (0.56)
Competent (0.53) Fine (0.56) Knowledgeable (0.53) Fine (0.53)
Smart (0.53) Knowledgeable (0.53) Dependable (0.52) Competent (0.53)
Knowledgeable (0.52) Personable (0.51) Competent (0.50) Personable (0.52)
Technical (0.48) Technical (0.49) Smart (0.49) Technical (0.51)
Dependable (0.46) Competent (0.48) Technical (0.48) Knowledgeable (0.50)
Personable (0.45) Attentive (0.48) Personable (0.47) Smart (0.49)
Attentive (0.44) Smart (0.46) Attentive (0.46) Attentive (0.47)

Among commonly used words (defined as appearing in > 1% of evaluations), importance was measured by term frequency-inverse document frequency, which is a metric of weighting term usage in an evaluation relative to usage in all evaluations; values closest to zero indicate that terms are used near equally across all evaluations and are deemed less unique