Table 3.
Proximities and distances between favourable attributes and the key terms “poor” and “rich” and the ABI in Google News Word2vec pre-trained embeddings
Favourable attributes | Proximity to “poor” (cosine) | Proximity to “rich” (cosine) | Relative value: 1 suggests attribute closer to the poor | Relative distance to “poor” (in radians) | Relative distance to “rich” (in radians) | Aporophobia bias indicator (ABI) |
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Sympathy | 0.169531 | 0.018321 | 1 | 1.400441 | 1.552474 | 0.152032 |
Politeness | 0.132293 | 0.068439 | 1 | 1.438114 | 1.502303 | 0.064189 |
Pleasing | 0.227241 | 0.174897 | 1 | 1.341551 | 1.394995 | 0.053443 |
Goodwill | 0.088890 | 0.039868 | 1 | 1.481787 | 1.530918 | 0.049129 |
Cordiality | 0.043623 | 0.007792 | 1 | 1.527159 | 1.563004 | 0.035845 |
Happy | 0.212202 | 0.180576 | 1 | 1.356968 | 1.389223 | 0.032255 |
Fearless | 0.100959 | 0.069186 | 1 | 1.469664 | 1.501554 | 0.031889 |
Pride | 0.104457 | 0.088019 | 1 | 1.466148 | 1.482663 | 0.016514 |
Friendliness | 0.178084 | 0.175157 | 1 | 1.391756 | 1.394731 | 0.002974 |
Courageous | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Self-assurance | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Carelessness | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Defence | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Affection | 0.100301 | 0.10674 | 0 | 1.470325 | 1.463852 | − 0.006474 |
Liked | 0.125296 | 0.135883 | 0 | 1.445169 | 1.434491 | − 0.010678 |
Delight | 0.033640 | 0.045317 | 0 | 1.537149 | 1.525463 | − 0.011687 |
Desire | 0.085015 | 0.096916 | 0 | 1.485677 | 1.473728 | − 0.011949 |
Pleasant | 0.168783 | 0.187770 | 0 | 1.401201 | 1.381905 | − 0.019297 |
acceptation | 0.049464 | 0.099845 | 0 | 1.521311 | 1.470784 | − 0.050527 |
appreciation | 0.005268 | 0.075830 | 0 | 1.565527 | 1.494893 | − 0.070635 |
independence | 0.067198 | 0.141933 | 0 | 1.503546 | 1.428382 | − 0.075165 |
Love | 0.107482 | 0.184401 | 0 | 1.463105 | 1.385334 | − 0.077772 |
Delightful | 0.131124 | 0.215119 | 0 | 1.439293 | 1.353983 | − 0.085311 |
Flattery | 0.054658 | 0.140086 | 0 | 1.516110 | 1.430247 | − 0.085864 |
Friendly | 0.184168 | 0.271432 | 0 | 1.385570 | 1.295916 | − 0.089655 |
Endorsement | − 0.049720 | 0.057279 | 0 | 1.620537 | 1.513486 | − 0.107052 |
Taste | 0.147377 | 0.261997 | 0 | 1.422879 | 1.305705 | − 0.117175 |
Pleasure | − 0.005007 | 0.120311 | 0 | 1.575803 | 1.450193 | − 0.125610 |
Attractive | 0.146302 | 0.282672 | 0 | 1.423967 | 1.284217 | − 0.139750 |
Source: author’s creation