big buncha R again tonight, which means copious notes and in those notes little bits of encouragement, like, "You'll figure it out!". I feel kinda dumb, but I think it helps. Past me encouraging future me.
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this is all in service of trying to automatically determine the gender of an R tibble, given first names. This is SO PROBLEMATIC IN SO MANY WAYS, but the most technical problematic-ness is that R's gender function does not know how to deal with non-Western names too well.
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So, like, gender("Susan") returns female, but gender("Haiyun") returns null. SURELY NOT A PROBLEM. THERE AREN'T THAT MANY CHINESE PEOPLE OUT THERE OR ANYTHING
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and their gender will cause your program to crash if you don't check for it too
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I.... don't... think so? Although gender()'s default method *will* cause a loop to fail because of null returns.
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I meant more the code calling gender() would crash if it used it for something that didn't expect it to be null (I don't really know R but I assume it has some semblance of type checking?)
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