Somewhere on the internets I read about GenderAnalyzer, a website that evaluates the writing on a website of your choosing and uses AI to determine if it’s written by a man or a woman. I tested my blog on it, obviously. In case you can’t read the writing in the picture above, here it is a bit more zoomed in:
Curious. I wonder what I’m doing that makes me sound like a dude. Maybe it’s the random gratuitous swearing? Or the lack of documented shoe purchases?
If it’s because of all the computer geek talk, then I’m just going to be offended and pissy, like some women are when they encounter sexism. So there.
It identified me correctly, but its success rate is pretty shoddy:
http://freepollkit.com/index.php?browse=viewresult&pollid=1010438
Maybe they just randomly serve up a response, and are actually using the site to create a database of blogs?
I’m betting it was the mention of “A Clockwork Orgy” a while back.
Linky broken
[...] I got around to actually posting this, I noticed that Gillian had just posted her discovery that she also writes like a man! I tried a few others, and have to [...]
@Garth Fixed! Thx
It got my blog right, but apparently on my livejournal I write like a girl.
Hey – there’s a 61% chance I’m a man too. Does that mean I can now pee in public?!