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

[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.