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11 Nov 2003

Your Writing Gender

Tuesday  •  06:59 PM  •  77 words

Submit your writing to The Gender Genie and it will predict your gender based on it. Since the Gender Genie works best on texts of more than 500 words and I have no weblog entry that is that long, I simply submitted the text from my about page, and guess what? The Gender Genie thought I was male! My female score was 648 and my male score was 768. Interesting. Did it guess your gender correctly?

Quacks on Your Writing Gender

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Neil T.  •  Nov 11  •  07:15 PM

It correctly said I was male on a 524 word post. In fact my male score was much higher than my female one. Cool :).

sarahruth  •  Nov 12  •  12:57 AM

i am also guessed as male…but…gasp..i’m a GIRL

deadmanjones  •  Nov 12  •  06:45 AM

“Female Score: 1248
Male Score: 1731

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!”

It regards “the” as male… erm… cretinous springs to mind. Or “the cretin” does anyway.

Dag  •  Nov 12  •  11:26 AM

The Gender Genie almost always thinks I’m female. Last time I checked, it was wrong - unless my brain is actually female, or something odd like that.

Lorus  •  Nov 14  •  02:01 PM

Well, first I tried this essay I did recently, and it said it was a guy, and then I tried a journal entry and got female (my female score was like two times as high as the male). Just goes to show you those dumb very-strict guidelines are totally sexist. *goes about muttering about how “they” are teaching everyone how to right like guys in school, disregarding the fact that the journal entry was much longer*

rachel  •  Nov 30  •  10:19 PM

It correctly places me as female for pretty much everything I’ve submitted with the exception of when I write about poetry and for this short story I wrote from a male perspective. I must analyze poetry like a guy I guess. Weird.

Michelle  •  Jan 8  •  02:46 PM

An odd test it is. Based on my fiction writing, it always guessed me correctly as female. Based on my non-fiction writing, it always guessed me incorrectly as male. These gender tests are always interesting.

{This discussion is closed. Thanks to all who participated.}