Today, Lancerlord shares information about The Gender Genie. Paste a chunk of text from your blog into the Gender Genie, and it will make an educated guess as to whether the chunk was written by a male or female.
How does it work? The site says…
Inspired by an article in The New York Times Magazine, the Gender Genie 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.
I tried it with a short entry that was judged far more feminine than masculine. Then I read that it works best on text with 500 or more words, so I plunked in a larger text and that was much more masculine than feminine. Dejá vu! Way back in college, the professional inventories I took listed me as scoring similarly as male teachers who liked their jobs, but not female teachers who did. Whatever.
Give it a try. Let us know how it did with your writing.
I’ve tried it on several sections of my blog & it’s convinced I’m male …
I wonder if that’s because it’s a technical / work related blog. Maybe if I were to have a personal blog it would be more “female”…
Emma
Haha–can’t wait to try this, although I’m pretty sure there’s nothing quite male about my blog! I found your blog through Superkimbo’s; I went to international schools all my life and now teach high school English in Colorado but hope to teach overseas soon! Looking forward to reading more:)
are there gay and straight blogs as well? 🙂
Hi Emma,
Good point! Since I am a tech coordinator, maybe that has influenced my writing style. Or maybe I was drawn to be a tech teacher and coordinator because my communication styles fit well in this male-dominated occupation.
Preya, Best of luck with your overseas job search. I have greatly enjoyed my time teaching teaching overseas. I hope you find a good school to teach in.
Ggwfung,
THAT would be interesting research. However, I’d hate to see it exploited and give way to lots of speculation. However, you left the comment in good fun and here I am getting serious about it. Forgive me!