Comments on: Identity crisis

By: francis s.

francis s. — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:43:21 +0000

From the words it highlighted on my texts, apparently men don’t use articles, either definite or indefinite.

And, both my writing for work and my blog come out female.

Innaresting.

By: marydell

marydell — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 07:16:50 +0000

Personally, I think the science behind the algorithm is flawed. It falls right in line with stereotypes: men write about things while women write about connections.

Each text the scientists used was over 42,000 words long. Maybe you need to feed in that many words for the algorithm to come up with an 80% accuracy rate.

By: lizard

lizard — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 05:40:57 +0000

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: Uh, the Gender Genie has no idea!

yes, i confused the gender genie. i’m so proud.

By: aaron

aaron — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 02:07:59 +0000

i’m right there with you sister.

yes, i hope this is an actual experiment that will be used to prove/disprove the hypothesis. otherwise, bitches need to get their hair did.

By: mig

mig — Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:15:42 +0000

i tried my five most recent blogposts, all came back “female”. i noticed at the time that the script was getting less than 50% right. it would be interesting to know whether that is because the underlying assumptions of the program are incorrect, or whether it works with other texts and blog posts are somehow different.

By: marydell

marydell — Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:20:35 +0000

I’m absolutely floored at how many people have been interested in my little php script. In looking at some of the referrers, and it seems like there are identity crises going on all over blogland. I never thought I

By: kim

kim — Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:45:17 +0000

I tried two of my entires… the first one, it thought I was a boy. but then it got its head screwed back on properly with the second.