Saturday, March 08, 2008

Gender Guesser

This is interesting. I saw on Jezebel a link to a tool called Gender Guesser. You copy and paste a piece of text, and the tool analyzes it and returns a guess on what is the gender of the writer.

Just for fun I ran some of my blog posts through the Gender Guesser. Below are the results:

Post: Celibacy
Total words: 896
Genre: Informal
Female = 1327
Male = 1251
Difference = -76; 48.52%
Verdict: Weak FEMALE
Weak emphasis could indicate European.

Post: Oh to be a work of art
Total words: 1073
Genre: Informal
Female = 1529
Male = 1365
Difference = -164; 47.16%
Verdict: Weak FEMALE
Weak emphasis could indicate European.

Post: End of an era
Total words: 383
Genre: Informal
Female = 671
Male = 726
Difference = 55; 51.96%
Verdict: Weak MALE
Weak emphasis could indicate European.

I wonder if this "weak emphasis" thing may have anything to do with the fact that I learned English as a foreign language.

I would love to find out what the Gender Guesser says about my fellow bloggers. Care to share?

5 comments:

  1. Well, mine were predominantly Weak MALE to MALE, although there were some weak FEMALE in there.

    All of which I suspect proves that machines are nowhere near as smart as people...

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  2. I tried a handful of posts and more than half of them came out "weak male."

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  3. "I wonder if this "weak emphasis" thing may have anything to do with the fact that I learned English as a foreign language"

    id have to agree with that logic.

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  4. It thinks I'm a man.

    Post: In like a lion...

    Genre: Informal
    Female = 882
    Male = 1569
    Difference = 687; 64.01%
    Verdict: MALE

    Why am I not surprised?

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  5. I tried some of my recent posts -- most of them came out weak male. One came out as weak female. Apparently, I'm European -- or maybe a lot of my favorite writers are.

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