Boy/Girl Blogging
Over at the inestimable Nimue's place, I ran across her reference to the "Gender Genie"--a site that purports to predict the sex of the author of a chunk of text by analyzing the use of certain words. Who's NOT up for that kind of game?
Here's the odd thing: when I fed the genie a post from this here blog, I came out predominantly female; or, as the results put it:
[And for the record, no one told me that in the new Blogger you could change the color of your text with ease. Thanks a LOT, early adopters!]
Here's the odd thing: when I fed the genie a post from this here blog, I came out predominantly female; or, as the results put it:
Female Score: 954Just for fun, I fed it a post from the blog that I keep for work purposes. Check this out:
Male Score: 712
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!
Female Score: 558So, apparently, when I'm talking about work, I'm a bit more butch then I am here. Actually, I'm more than just a bit butch--I'm twice as male as I am female, compared to my writing here, which is just slightly more female than male. I bet I could extrapolate some theories about the gendered components of different discourses, but you all can guess where I'm going with that.
Male Score: 1080
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!
[And for the record, no one told me that in the new Blogger you could change the color of your text with ease. Thanks a LOT, early adopters!]
Labels: internet culture
posted by kfluff at 2:37 PM
4 Comments:
I tried out Gender Genie with one of my own blog entries and the Genie scored it 1154 to 1023 in favor of a male author.
My question is: why is the a masculine keyword? Same question for "are" and "is"? These are verbs! Ugh, clearly this is something I need more info on and will lose hours of this holiday weekend to this endeavor....
Oh, this is fun1 For today's blog post, I got:
Words: 157
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)
Female Score: 149
Male Score: 106
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!
Lee--again, I could make some utterly unfounded conjectures. "The"=definite article as opposed to feminine indefinite article "a"? Is/Are="being" verbs. But do chicks use more active verbs?
Beth--what up, girl? Where you been?
My latest post all about buying yarn and fabric? Male. Apparently Gender Genie does not dismiss the crafting as girly.
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