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Thursday, August 21, 2003

Girly Girl

Bene Diction recently linked to The Gender Genie, a site that analyzes your writing to predict if you are male or female. I submitted eight entries...six were correctly identified as female, and two incorrectly as male. So, I guess I write like a girl, for the most part...

Incidentally, I got a referral from this page, which is some sort of web scavenger hunt. My site showed up under "A website with a purple background". That it has...if you're using the default skin. A comment about my site says, "it's purple, but a little girly". Yep, it's girly...not that there's anything wrong with that!

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>>Gender Genie from Dean's World
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.... [Read More]

Tracked on August 30, 2003 7:51 AM

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I gave it three of my published articles, and it thought I was male all three times!

Posted on August 28, 2003 at 9:07 PM

"Writes like a girl" could become the new blog phrase, like "throws like a girl." ;-)

(Except, apparently, I write like a girl a lot. D'oh!)

Posted on August 30, 2003 at 7:51 AM

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.

Posted on August 31, 2003 at 9:09 PM



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