The Gender Genie
http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html
You cut and paste text into it, and it tells you what gender you sound like!
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Hello.
It nearly always thinks I'm male. Just tested it on a bunch of combined posts here, and my blog, and it still thinks I'm male.
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"In my world it's a place of patterns and feel. In my world it's a haven for what is real. It's my world, nobody can steal it, but people like me, we live in the shadows." -Donna Williams
This is my text:
I like the idea of using an algorithm to guess gender because it is as good a method as any doctor might use.
I found this page on WrongPlanet. I am not sure how to come to 500 words. I might post something from a blog, but I don't know what would happen with that information. There is nothing that says it would not become public property.
Why would anyone want to predict the gender of an author? Why wouldn't we already know? And if they wanted to hide it, shouldn't we protect their privacy?
I wonder if there is an option for transgender. I wonder if this makes mistakes when people with alternative lifestyles paste text? I would also be interested to see what happened for vampires.
This was for 158 words. It predicted I was female. According to the stats fewer than 500 words is more likely to incorrectly predict female gender. Next I will try something from a blog.
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Raised by Wolves
if you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
azalynn
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: 6 May 2005
Gender: Female
Posts: 69
Location: California, USA
I've put in huge chunks of my LJ and it pretty much always guesses me as male (I'm not.) I also scored well into the "male" range on the BBC gender test (I'll hunt down the link if anyone is interested). I am not really surprised by any of this -- because of my AS or genetics or *something* I have always related much better to males than females, and my identity is more generally masculine than feminine, though I'd consider myself straight and certainly not interested in changing the gender of my body. I just don't think my body parts matter very much at all.
Here's one from a blog:
Five of them - my supervisor, her boss, the CEO, the agency lawyer and I guess the clinical vice president or whatever he is, against me and the union guy, who tried to cut a deal. I was late because he told me noon and the meeting was at 11. I had my IPAQ out and wrote the time there so I wouldn't forget.
He wanted them to combine both grievances and then do some garbage about agreeing to disagree and the warning would stay in my file., with the idea that if they tried to bring another disciplinary action it would open the grievance back up and it would go to arbitration.
They refused everything, and tried to discredit me by saying that I was unhappy, and that I was paranoid.
Then they tried to say that I arranged the disappearance of the last missing document to prove that things could go missing.
I don't need to do that. All I need to do is write things like yesterday when my co-worker told me a file I found on a desk in the conference room had been there for two days. Or the day that the change of shift file went missing and XXXXXXX had put it in her drawer with the blank phone contacts. Or today when I went through a client's file to find a sec 12, and the copy was missing and the 12 was still active. Talk about liability. They can't change the fact that it is missing because it is in the client's file in medical records at CDH. Anything they put in the chart will be an obvious fake. Of course they could always say that I took it out. But how would I know in advance that that would be needed or checked?
They are crazier than I am. At least I have an investment in the truth. But to risk perjury to prove only that you are right? No, that's not crazy. That's just stupid.
I fully intend on giving these yahoos as much rope as they want. Amazing that they are pursuing it. Someone is bound to believe me. Statistically it is impending.
The best part was validation by the mediator. He was mystified as to why they didn't want to negotiate. He cost them $1200. ServiceNet and the union had to split it. Finally getting my money's worth from the union.
Clearly the tide has turned. The mediator saw some benefit in compromise and he thought my offer was fair, that since there is a disagreement about the existence of a pattern, that if the pattern doesn't occur, they remove the warnings.
Their response was they can't do that because they never did it before. They also balked at the time period - 10 months. I would say that if something doesn't occur in ten months, you could not say a pattern is occurring.
The mediator agreed.
That was the best part - an outside party agreed with me.
This one is 505 words. It's from a blog on this site. This time it predicted I was male. I probably broke a record for using the word "the" - 34 times. It's more accurate with 500 and over words. The word "the" is weighted by 17 points. The word "him" is weighted by 78 points. Kind of makes you think.
I really do use the word "the" a lot....
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Raised by Wolves
if you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
woot!
Said I was male, correct. I used a 520 word rumination. . .That no one will read outside of myself.
Nothing to see here. Move along!
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All your bass are belong to us.
I put 628 words of one of my WP posts in and it said I was female
(which I'm not by the way)
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Long afloat on shipless oceans,
I did all my best to smile...
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Something wrote of a personal nature:
Words: 416
Female Score: 579
Male Score: 387
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!
Something written for work purposes:
Words: 2131
Female Score: 1606
Male Score: 2512
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!
My resume:
Words: 823
Female Score: 591
Male Score: 382
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!
Blog entry
Words: 620
Female Score: 1509
Male Score: 1081
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!
So pretty good and I would agree that I write for work much different than anyother time. After all I am a Project Coordinator and that type of reporting requires a more technical type of writing. It was however hard for me to find a lot of personal writting.
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Yvette (yealc)
"I never could get the hang of Thursdays"
azalynn
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: 6 May 2005
Gender: Female
Posts: 69
Location: California, USA
Here's the link to the BBC test. It's rather long (about 30 minutes if you take your time) but rather fun as well.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sex/add_user.shtml?users=1
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