Newsvine sometimes turns up little gems of sites. Today, it provided for my delectation an online utility simply named
The Gender Genie. What it does is something quite remarkable - it uses established algorithm to determine the gender of your writing. Of course, your mileage may vary, and it's far from perfect, but it detected my gender perfectly. I used a recent blog post of mine as the sample text to test -
this one, in fact. My results came back as follows:
Words: 676
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)
Female Score: 557
Male Score: 1044
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!
How glad am I! There's also a PDF describing the algorithm behind the site on the results page (just submit some text to see it).
So go test yourself: hit up
The Gender Genie and see what it says about you!
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