Thing
I...... Forget how I got to this. I mean, following-links-wise. But it's kind of cool...
The Gender Genie will sift through entered text to determine if the author is male or female using word frequency. The genie links to articles on the same from the New York Times.
Now, I noticed an interesting trend when I put in some of my own writing. I put a bunch of my blog entries into it, as well as several pieces of *ahem* fanfiction and even some essays for school. The *ahem* fic was uniformly identified as "female," which I guess I understand from their criteria? The blog entries were more telling -- all the drama! entries are "female" but the ones that are just about stuff are more likely to be "male." And the schoolwork was identified almost entirely as "male" -- the only one that it identified as "female" was a paper on Macbeth from my Shakespeare class freshman year. I don't know quite what to make of that, but... it's interesting.
Actually, now I want to put this entry through it and see how it's gendered.
&edit;; The Result: MALE
The Gender Genie will sift through entered text to determine if the author is male or female using word frequency. The genie links to articles on the same from the New York Times.
Now, I noticed an interesting trend when I put in some of my own writing. I put a bunch of my blog entries into it, as well as several pieces of *ahem* fanfiction and even some essays for school. The *ahem* fic was uniformly identified as "female," which I guess I understand from their criteria? The blog entries were more telling -- all the drama! entries are "female" but the ones that are just about stuff are more likely to be "male." And the schoolwork was identified almost entirely as "male" -- the only one that it identified as "female" was a paper on Macbeth from my Shakespeare class freshman year. I don't know quite what to make of that, but... it's interesting.
Actually, now I want to put this entry through it and see how it's gendered.
&edit;; The Result: MALE