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Analysis of 160,000 movies reveals that “murderous words” have increased since 1970

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The amount of murder and homicide in movies has increased overall over the past 50 years, according to a study that analyzed a vast database of movie dialogue. Researchers used machine learning to search a database of subtitles for more than 160,000 English-language films produced between 1970 and 2000. They calculated the amount of character dialogue…