October 29, 2003

the gender genie...

Today on misbehaving.net Caterina Fake published a post on the outcome of running a number of the "misbehaving.net" weblog entries through The Gender Genie, a tool that "uses a simplified version of an algorithm developed by Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology, to predict the gender of an author."

And so I was curious and fed one of my longest self-composed posts into "The Gender Genie" and received the following results:

Female Score: 103
Male Score: 1038
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

[Great article on the Gender Genie concept at nature.com: Computer program detects author gender: Simple algorithm suggests words and syntax bear sex and genre stamp.]

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October 29, 2003 03:28 PM | google it! | threadorati
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