:P

May 15th, 2005

Apparently, I write like a man.

Analyses of my blog entries from The Gender Genie consistently identify my writing as a man’s. His algorithim is supposed to be 80% accurate, but from the looks of the stats, it’s closer to 60%.

I just plugged my extended essay in there–over 4000 of my, and sometimes Orwell and Burgess’s words–and I got male. Again.

Actually, reading some of the links, it’s not that surprising: none of the stuff I inputted was that personal (certainly not the essay!) and I have a hard time believing that ‘the’ is inherently male. >_>

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5 Responses to “:P”

mike Says:

I also think it’s a little ridiculous that *the* is a male word.

May 15th, 2005 at 6:03 pm

Neale Says:

I put in the first fifteen verses of Genesis; it said it was most likely male (267 female to 367 male). My blog it identified as male, and yet Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ speech? Slightly female. Hmm…. I wonder if there’s an algorithim for determining if something was written by more than one author?

May 16th, 2005 at 8:12 pm

Anthony Says:

Hmm, a history paper and a sample (lengthy) blog entry came out decisively masculine, but my eulogy was feminine (i suppose that’s understandable) to varying degrees depending on whether it was classified as fiction, non-fiction or blog entry. However, I don’t quite see why particular words they analyze determine the gender of the writing… esp. ‘the’. I used ‘the’ 527 times in my history paper.

May 16th, 2005 at 8:50 pm

Cat Says:

I actually hadn’t experimented with the different genres. I guess they weight the words differently in each one…?

May 16th, 2005 at 10:11 pm

Anthony Says:

If I recall, the weighting was different and the word pool was different.

May 18th, 2005 at 2:44 pm