Gender Wackiness

[przed]

fileg pointed to the Gender Genie.

The blurb on the site reads: Inspired by an article 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.

I figured I'd give it a whirl with some of my stories, just for a lark.

The majority of my UNCLE and VigBean stories came up male. But the Pros stories were rated overwhelmingly female. All of which is pretty much the exact opposite of what I expected.

Interesting.

Comments

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

I always come out male. I did it again with the story I'm currently working on and the vamp tale I wrote with nsandik just now.

Still male although the second, not surprisingly was close. :)

[przed.livejournal.com]

I usually score male, or androgynous, on this sort of thing. But if any of my stories were going to show as female, I'd have guessed it would be the Lord of the Rings stuff. Certainly not the Pros.

I'd love to see where nsandik falls with her solo stuff.

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Hee! I analyzed different bits of my stories and came up with the not very surprising result that my narrative is femanine, but my sex scenes are masculine. Also, Due South, Man From Uncle and Pros skewed with that division, but every one of my anime-fandom stories read as feminine, as did my 10th Kingdom stories.

Unsurprisingly, the most masculine bits were the first sex scene in "Phoenix" and "Wrong" in Pros. Surprisingly, however, the story I wrote in a deliberately crude "masculine" style for Due South recently -- "Stop me if you've heard this one" was divided by only ten words more in the masculine category. Huh.

I find it, as you say, interesting.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Analyzing different bits of stores is a great idea. Of course, I tried it with Velvet and Silk, one of the smuttiest Pros stories I've written so far, and it still came up female.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee - interesting! I tried a few, and came out a mixture of male and female. Return to Neverland, which someone described as "girlie" to them (not a criticism, just a comment, but I was really interested in the perception) came out as written by a bloke though! And I have to say, the whole premise of using "inclusive" words as indicative of a female writer is a tad dodgy... *g* But fun! Thanks for that!

[przed.livejournal.com]

I was betting my Lord of the Rings pieces would come out, ahem, girlie, but nope. I didn't figure the Pros stuff would, though.

And yeah, I reckon we've all shown that using this sort of algorithm to predict the sex of the author is a mug's game. If amusing.