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Instances of the Words “Love” and “Hate” in the Billboard Top 100 (1960-2019)

Instances of the Words “Love” and “Hate” in the Billboard Top 100 (1960-2019)
graph from an article in the Evolutionary Human Sciences; slow reveal by Jenna Laib (@JennaLaib)

(Slide Deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse)

Type of Graph: scatterplot

Source: Brand, C. O., Acerbi, A., & Mesoudi, A. (2019). Cultural evolution of emotional expression in 50 years of song lyrics. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 1. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2019.11

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Potential Math Content: scatterplot, scale along the y-axis, data collection methodology, line of best fit, sampling, proportions, proportional reasoning

Potential Content Connections: music, pop culture

2 thoughts on “Instances of the Words “Love” and “Hate” in the Billboard Top 100 (1960-2019)”

  1. The slide deck is still linked to the Hawaii endangered species slide deck. There is no slide deck for this graph.

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