The Gender Genie

[randomness]

http://bookblog.net/gender/analysis.php says:

Inspired by an article and a test in The New York Times Magazine, the Gender Genie uses a simplified version of an algorithm developed by Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology, to predict the gender of an author. Read more at BookBlog, The New York Times, and The Guardian.

(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

I just tried it on my two most recent posts with more than 500 words:

The first one (private):

Words: 536
Female Score: 824
Male Score: 565
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!


The second one:

Words: 646
Female Score: 1133
Male Score: 1044
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

I blog like a girl. Oh, the shock.

There are different settings for fiction, non-fiction, and blog posts.

(from http://scienceblogs.com/ethicsandscience/2007/04/do_i_blog_like_a_girl.php)

Comments

[muffyjo]

Hmm...so I tried it on this post:
http://muffyjo.livejournal.com/293392.html#cutid1
and it came up with the following:
Words: 786
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 603
Male Score: 1136

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Hmmm...So next I tried this entry:
http://muffyjo.livejournal.com/292558.html
Words: 235
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 301
Male Score: 191

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

So the shorter I write, the more feminine....