Gender Genie
Well. Here's a web site called Gender Genie which claims to be able to identify your sex simply by analyzing a sample of your writing. Not your handwriting, but just based on the words and word patterns you use.
It, uh, didn't work very well for me. Either that or there's something I need to tell my wife...
(Via Lilac Rose.)
I noticed her accuracy rate is about 50/50.
LOL!
Yeah err, it thought I was female too...great program!
I gave it three different blog posts, and it read two correctly. Judging by most of the reports I've seen, a .667 streak seems to be extremely rare.
My husband I played with this awhile back. Our first attempts were reversed. As we went further back in our own blog history, we finally found posts that had the proper gender. Our hypothesis... He reads mostly girl blogs. I read mostly boy blogs. Our blogvoices have been affected. Possibly the model assumptions are wrong. Most likely it is just random fun.
It thinks I am female, too. Lol
My theory: it's just a random number generator.
Actually, dowingba, if you check the site, you'll see that they claim to weight certain words. In my case, they guessed male correctly, due soley to the fact that I used the word "the" four times. :)
I don't know what happens when you click on the "you're wrong" icon, but when you click on the "you're right" icon, you'll get a running summary of results. Right now the status is:
guessed right: 33544 (50.05%)
guessed wrong: 33476 (49.95%)
After ~67,000 samples, I'd call that statistically equivalent to random chance. {grin}
The first time I was female. The second time I was male....I was actually impressed that it seemed so perfectly broken. After so many attempts, it's soo close to being wrong (or right) exactly half of the time.
Well, I just submitted four more posts. Two said "female" and two said "male". It seems that the results are only right half the time, according to their own statistics.
Duurr...
Like I said before, guys, statistically equivalent to random chance. In other words, 50/50 odds of guessing correctly.
It seems to think I'm a male..hmmm.
50% Accuracy?? Please.
One of my submissions was categorized as male, the other female.
BTW, this has been driving me crazy. Can someone please tell me what LOL stands for. (Laugh-out-Loud perhaps)
I'll bet they would have a better accuracy rate if they just picked "male" all the time.
A couple of weeks ago I fed the Gender-Bender three blog entries and was told each time I was a woman. Then I ran it on an entry reading "I'm a man, you idiot!" and was told it couldn't decide what my sex was. I tried it again today and was told I was a man.
It tot I was MALE..........wat will i tell my hubby next? lol