{"id":212646,"date":"2014-05-07T04:53:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T04:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/07\/destinationtoast-popculturebrain-leading\/"},"modified":"2018-09-20T17:17:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T17:17:21","slug":"destinationtoast-popculturebrain-leading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/07\/destinationtoast-popculturebrain-leading\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-212646 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/07\/destinationtoast-popculturebrain-leading\/attachment\/212647\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_mlgpy0k2Qh1qz8vumo1_640-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_mlgpy0k2Qh1qz8vumo1_640-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_mlgpy0k2Qh1qz8vumo1_640-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/07\/destinationtoast-popculturebrain-leading\/attachment\/212648\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_mlgpy0k2Qh1qz8vumo2_640-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_mlgpy0k2Qh1qz8vumo2_640-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_mlgpy0k2Qh1qz8vumo2_640-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" 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src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_mlgpy0k2Qh1qz8vumo3_640-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_mlgpy0k2Qh1qz8vumo3_640-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tumblr_mlgpy0k2Qh1qz8vumo3_640-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/destinationtoast.tumblr.com\/post\/84970267819\/popculturebrain-leading-men-age-leading\" target=\"_blank\">destinationtoast<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/strugglingtobeheard.tumblr.com\/post\/81726114430\/cynique-popculturebrain-leading-men-age\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/popculturebrain.com\/post\/48289698845\/leading-men-age-leading-women-dont-vulture\" target=\"_blank\">popculturebrain<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2013\/04\/leading-men-age-but-their-love-interests-dont.html?mid=twitter_vulture\" target=\"_blank\">Leading Men Age, Leading Women Don\u2019t | Vulture<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are more charts if you click through.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m not surprised by the results, but I like the methodology and the charts. \u00a0It makes me want to write a script to do something similar across all IMDB entries \u2014 I think look at all movies that made over $X and have a top-billed male and female lead (though they wouldn\u2019t always be romantically involved). \u00a0Then I\u2019d compare age of male lead (x axis) with average age of female lead (y axis). \u00a0Meaning that you could look and see the average age of the female lead when the male lead is 56, e.g.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulture graphs are compelling, but it would be way more compelling to see the aggregate stats for A LOT of leads. \u00a0And then we could do things like look at if\/how the pattern has differed over time (e.g., was there less of an increasing age gap back in the 50\u2019s and 60\u2019s).<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, I\u2019m not actually likely to do that any time soon \u2014 I already have several major fandom stats projects on my plate, and figuring out how to get data from IMDB isn\u2019t at the top of the list (plus, it would be difficult \u2014 their undocumented API doesn\u2019t appear to return age info, so it would be another scraping project).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, neat, if depressing, charts! \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Friendly reminder that Jeremy Renner is 43, Scarlett Johnansson is 29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>destinationtoast: \u00a0 popculturebrain: Leading Men Age, Leading Women Don\u2019t | Vulture There are more charts if you click through. I\u2019m not surprised by the results, but I like the methodology and the charts. \u00a0It makes me want to write a script to do something similar across all IMDB entries \u2014 I think look at all &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/07\/destinationtoast-popculturebrain-leading\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1663,309,3127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212651,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212646\/revisions\/212651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}