The Gender Genie
Stephen found this site which will analyze a piece of writing and tell you, based on the frequency and weight of a series of key words, whether the writer was male or female. When Stephen did it, he was correctly identified as male!
I tried six different posts, three anecdotal short story posts, three essays.
The results were interesting. Two of the three anecdotal posts were identified as being written by a woman. Two of the three essay posts were apparently written by a man.
I’m not sure what conclusions I could or should draw from the exercise, but it’s interesting. Anyone else want to try it and see what they find?
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I gave it my last post that was long enough. I was male:-) Only by a few words, but that’s what it decided. Since all aptitude/ability/outlook tests I take put me way at the female end of the brain spectrum, I feel that the gender genie is flawed. Still, the principle may be sound – women write differently from men (as a generalisation).
I tried this some time ago – about half the pieces I chose at random came out as male, the rest (rather obviously, what else?) female.
Most of my blog posts were male, but my creative writing was female. Interesting…
My one was deemed male, the other female.
I tried it on 6 posts and came out male on five of them (I’m female). I wasn’t surprised–I’ve never considered myself feminine–but nonetheless, putting mine together with yours, makes me wonder how good the research is on which this is based.
I tried a couple more of my posts. I came out male on all of them.
I included a post where I discuss helping a friend recover from a broken heart. I thought it might be considered a stereotypically female topic, but evidently I write like a man regardless.
I used three essays from my English 101 class *3.5 years ago* – I was female on two (about faith/morals), but masculine on the one about baseball. Three of three blog posts were feminine according to the genie. At least it worked for one of us.