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Last sunday, an article in the NYT magazine publicized an
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Last sunday, an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/10/magazine/10WWLN.html" title="nyt | 10 august">article in the NYT magazine</a> publicized an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/10/magazine/10wwln-test.html title="nyt | the specifics">algorithm</a> developed by a team of Israeli scientists that predicts the sex of the author of a text.

Now, various people [<a href="http://www.bookblog.net/bbarchives/000246.html#000246" title="book blog">book blog</a>] have automated the algorithm so that you can <a href="http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.php" title=
gender genie">see if you write like a girl</a>.

Posted on Aug. 17th, 2003 at 11:55 am | | Leave a comment | 9 comments |

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ex_lifeofbri692

i tested this livejournal entry and it guesses you're a guy. so i guess it's gotta be right. very interesting nonetheless.. the power of linguistics? or the weakness or the english language?
Posted on Aug. 17th, 2003 12:05 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

joshc

... but what does it think of yours?

It is reassuring to have the computer confirm gender, though a few of my entries turned out to be girly.
Posted on Aug. 17th, 2003 08:55 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

ddelapp

I tested my last few entries. I am now a woman.
Posted on Aug. 17th, 2003 02:15 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

joshc

It's all of your contractions and some of your personal pronouns.

I'm a woman about half the time. This comment is probably a very female string of text.
Posted on Aug. 17th, 2003 08:53 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

ddelapp

BTW, happy belated birthday! :)
Posted on Aug. 18th, 2003 09:43 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

joshc

thanks and a happy birthday to you.
Posted on Aug. 18th, 2003 01:26 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

ddelapp

thank you very much, sir.
Posted on Aug. 18th, 2003 07:00 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

ex_killcity447

haha i need to try this out when i have time!
Posted on Aug. 17th, 2003 03:02 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

joshc

It is fun, but not as accurate as the authors claim. The algorithm is amazingly simple, so sometimes everyone is a gender-bending writer.

Maybe it depends on the length of the text analyzed?
Posted on Aug. 17th, 2003 08:52 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply