Once again, I prove myself Teh Butch

[vvvexation]

Huh. The Gender Genie mostly thinks even my whiny emo posts were written by a guy. I honestly didn't expect that.

Its accuracy stats as a whole are way lower than the creators predicted, but I wonder how much of that is due to people trying hard to fool it. I kind of wanted to, but wasn't trying to per se; I just copy-pasted all of the sufficiently long posts I could find.

Comments

[tshuma]

I put in ten posts. (Yes, I'm persistent.)

Nine of them were judged to be authored by a male.

[emmett-the-sane.livejournal.com]

I think that it's weighted heavily towards male. I gave it (separately) a post each from half a dozen different women on my friends list (public posts, mind you). It said all of them are male. :)

It was, however, accurate in identifying my own posts as male. After all, a broken clock is right twice a day.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I think that it's weighted heavily towards male.

Fewer people feel insulted that way.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Eh, I get enough being misidentified as female from grocery store checkers (standing there! looking straight at me!), I'm not going to take it from a computer.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Did it, or d'you just figure it would? Folks are under the impression it errs on the side of maleness.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Um, it actually got it right, but I didn't want to let that stand in the way of the snark.

Bah!

[hadar-aviram.livejournal.com]

I just did the same experiment. The thing claims I'm male, 3 times out of 3. I also read the article, and either the "gender genie" doesn't really follow the principles in the article, or it was not designed to work on blog entries. Perhaps the writing style of the blogging population is different from the research population (I have some ideas about that).

Hey, have a good day.