Gender Genie

[Dallas Walker]

http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php


Inspired by an article (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/10/magazine/10WWLN.html?ex=1061784000&en=843e4c97d49a9f82&ei=5070) and a test (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/10/magazine/10wwln-test.html?ex=1168059600&en=a6ad778afcb6699a&ei=5070) in The New York Times Magazine, the Gender Genie uses a simplified version of an algorithm (http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/%7Ekoppel/papers/male-female-text-final.pdf) 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 (http://bookblog.net/bbarchives/categories/gender_genie.php), The New York Times (http://pam_oconnell.tripod.com/91103.txt), and The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1079265,00.html).
Edit - I ran one of my Dallas posts through it, and it says the author is male. I don't know if that's good or bad, lol. Trying a Banner thread next.

Edit - and Banner is a girl o_O

[Anna Fernandez]

Woohoo! I put an Anna post through and it guessed a female author. And then I tried a Kal Olorin post and it guessed a male author. :D

It says to use text chunks of 500 words or more for the best results.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Well, this confirmed what we all have known for some time..

Dasquian is written by a female author. :mneh

[Pierce Tondry]

Well, this confirmed what we all have known for some time..

Dasquian is written by a female author. :mneh

Wait what? You're female?




... ;)

[Nya Halcyon]

Bah... both Darven and Nya it detected as being written by a female....

[Crusader]

Words: 803
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 958
Male Score: 916
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!
http://bookblog.net/gender/female1.gif


OK this was unexpected...

[Ilias Nytrau]

I've tried it with a few of my male characters, and a few of my female characters.

If the character was male, the result was that it thought the author was male.

If the character was female, the result was that it thought the author was female.

Am I really that good at this? :lol

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Example: This was for Ilias Nytrau

Words: 777
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 436
Male Score: 1037
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!


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Wowee.

[Tear]

Thats actually interesting, I tried two posts by Tear both showed up as male. One post by The Gemellae showed up as female once and then male a second time.

Then I tried other authors.
Hera showed up as Female twice.
Sasseeri showed up as female once. Another time showed up as male. Which I found interesting because the Sass posts usually have a good femenine feel to them. At least descriptively. a wink, wink.
Kal Olorin showed up as male twice.o_O

[Captain Untouchable]

I don't have any female characters, and everything seems to be coming out male so far...

Edit:

Apparently I do have a female character after all; she shows up as female, while all my others seem to be male. I find that interesting, because while I do try to get the right sort of feel for my characters, I wouldn't really know what was making the difference. Looking at the words that get highlighted by the website, I'm starting to become intregued as to how it works it out.

[Crusader]

I did not even roleplay in that post and my gender was determined wrong but maybe it was too close to call: There is just a score difference of 42 points!
Maybe my vocabulary is pretty neutral since I am not a native speaker.

I tested my theorie on one of Yog's posts in the gaming forums and he seems to be female too. So my theorie might be right or Yogs is a gamer chick, with a very deep voice and a compassion for Battlefield games and boxoffice, that prefers to play male instead of female characters in MMOGs.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Kal IS a male all the time, not just twice! But its interesting that it thinks that the person writing him is male. :D I'm with you Miri, we're both just this good at this.

Its not surprising it thinks Sassy is written by a guy or a girl, she's a female with lots of power and the gender genie is sexist against women having more power than men. Or something. :lol

[Mitch]

Turns out that barbarian fantasy adventure stories about mongooses are overwhelmingly written by a male author.

[Ever Talbot]

Turns out that barbarian fantasy adventure stories about mongooses are overwhelmingly written by a male author.


OMG No way!

All it is is a list of words. I don't see how it relates to male/female, but I havent really looked >_>

[Morgan Evanar]

With the exception of Adia (who's 50/50) my male characters rate male and my female characters rate female.

[stevenvdb]

Words: 807

Female Score: 477
Male Score: 330
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

The passage was from my personal journal and not from something I had published on the web, though, which in turn when ran through the Genie seem to show up as predominately male. I write a little bit differently when it is something for others to see, i guess.;)

Hmmm, maybe it's trying to tell me something...

Reputations...