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Could it be that men are from IHOP and women are from the Keebler tree?(TWP)This piece originally appeared on the on March 14. is the digital team at the Washington Post Company focused on innovation and experimenting with emerging technologies.
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Maple syrup runs down the side of a short stack of three pancakes at the International House of Pancakes on Broad Street in Wichita Falls, Texas.(Torin Halsey - AP)A social media monitoring company called analyzed one year’s worth of online chatter – 27 billion conversations – in order to parse the age-old question: what do women (and men) want?
Using natural language processing, they filtered English grammar and gender voice in search of phrases like “I want X.” The results were then analyzed for sentiment, and condensed into lists of the most common statements.
So what do women and men want?
In one word: food.
Analysts discovered that the majority of wishes expressed by both sexes were culinary in nature: for both men and women, eight(!) of the top ten most-wanted items were food.
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The other items rounding out the top ten? Both men and women desired a car and a phone – in that order.
After eons of ,cheap christian louboutin, earnest , and dedicated to analyzing the trials and tribulations of romantic relationships, could the answer really be so simple?
What do women want? What do men want? Write this down, :
A cookie and a pancake.
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