You may have already discovered the online tool that uses an algorithm to determine whether an author is male or female, but I'd never tried it before.
So, I entered my post on "what thrills me" and the Gender Genie concluded I was male. This conclusion was based on the fact that in the passage, I used the word "good" three times and the word "like" only once. "Good" is apparently a masculine word, while "like" is a feminine one.
According to the accuracy results you see after telling the program whether you are, in fact, male or female, the Gender Genie "should" be right about 80 percent of the time, but has been right 68.37 percent of the time (or 107,090 times) and wrong 31.63 percent of the time (or 49,549 times). There have been 156,639 total responses since September 13, 2003.
Well, I believe there are more differences than that! ;)
Posted by: bunny | November 26, 2003 at 12:02 AM