Replace wording example about sharks (negative association word)
baeolophus opened this issue · 3 comments
baeolophus commented
I helped with the MATLAB lesson for the first time today and was struck by the string replacement example that uses "big shark" and "terror shark" in the Loops lesson. Negative portrayals of sharks in media continues to be a problem in public support (or lack thereof) shark conservation (peer-reviewed summary paper here). I would like to suggest replacing "terror" with "little" in lines 498, 501, 518, and 519. The new example will still replace a word, but uses neutral words about size instead of value-laden "terror". Thanks for considering!
gcapes commented
A PR would be welcome :)
baeolophus commented
Pull request here: https://github.com/swcarpentry/matlab-novice-inflammation/pull/247/files #247 Thanks!