近年来,短头犬的品种越来越受欢迎,尽管显示了构象相关疾病的高发病率和早期死亡率。有人认为,这种流行可能是通过公众对这些短嘴狗看起来特别像婴儿或“可爱”的看法来解释的。\"这里,通过分析在线出售的狗和小狗广告的单词内容,研究了短嘴品种特别可能被描述为可爱的假设。被广告的狗的年龄和品种被考虑,除了每个广告的文字是否包括“可爱”或两个相关的词:“可爱”和“甜蜜”。对整个广告样本(n=43,312)的分析表明,年轻的狗更有可能被广告为“可爱”和“可爱”,“而年龄较大的人更有可能被宣传为“甜蜜”。\"shortmuzzled,短脑品种(颅面比<0.5)更有可能被宣传为“可爱,6个月以下的短头幼犬特别可能被称为“可爱”,也是“可爱”。\"然而,品种大小对广告中的单词使用有更大和更广泛的影响,较小的狗更频繁地使用这三个词做广告:“可爱,\"\"可爱,\"和\"甜。“当仅考虑成年狗的数据时(n=11,400),并使用了持续的枪口缩短和年龄数据,发现了一些不同和更复杂的结果模式。“可爱”和“可爱”的使用与这些成年狗的枪口缩短程度无关,但“甜”更常用于口吻较长的品种的广告中。我们得出的结论是,当前的数据集为以下断言提供了部分支持:短嘴狗被描述为比长嘴狗更“可爱”,但小尺寸是一个更好的预测使用“可爱”和它的同义词。
Brachycephalic dog breeds have become increasingly popular in recent years, despite showing a high incidence of conformation-related disorders and early mortality. It has been suggested that this popularity might be explained by public perceptions of these short-muzzled dogs as looking particularly infant-like or \"cute.\" Here, the hypothesis that short-muzzled breeds are especially likely to be described as cute was investigated by analyzing the word contents of advertisements for dogs and puppies being sold online. The ages and breeds of dogs being advertised were considered, in addition to whether the text of each advertisement included the word \"cute\" or two associated words: \"adorable\" and \"sweet.\" Analyses of the entire sample of advertisements (n = 43,312) indicated that younger dogs were more likely to be advertised as \"cute\" and \"adorable,\" while older ones were more likely to be advertised as \"sweet.\" Shortmuzzled, brachycephalic breeds (cranio-facial ratio < 0.5) were more likely to be advertised as \"cute,\" with brachycephalic puppies under 6 months of age being particularly likely to be called \"cute\" and also \"adorable.\" However, breed size had a larger and wider effect on word use in advertisements, with smaller dogs being advertised more frequently using all three words: \"cute,\" \"adorable,\" and \"sweet.\" When data for adult dogs only were considered (n = 11,400), and continuous muzzle shortening and age data were used, a somewhat different and more complex pattern of results were found. Use of the words \"cute\" and \"adorable\" were not associated with degree of muzzle shortening among these adult dogs, but \"sweet\" was used more often in advertisements for longer-muzzled breeds. We conclude that the present dataset provides partial support for the assertion that short-muzzled dogs are described as more \"cute\" than longer-muzzled ones, but that small size is a better predictor of the use of \"cute\" and its synonyms.