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Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Genderizing your blog

Worried you come across as a priss in your blogs? As a heterosexual male constantly mistaken as being a faggot or one of them homos--depending on the company--you can bet I do. Meet the Gender Genie. The tricky little app, when given a string of text, makes an educated guess about the author's possession or lack of a penis. The methodology, in my opinion, is highly suspect, but I was delighted to find that impersonating a fiery evangelical garnered my manliest score ever [roughly 72%]. When you compare that with my average of right around 50%, or total gender ambiguity, it feels significant.

I found the link on a really post at overstated, which means the link itself must be old. Old, in blog terms, equals death. I'm sorry if I've wasted your time.

UPDATE: This post here is a bodice-ripping 89% masculine. That's hot.

4 Comments:

At 12:54 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I stumbled onto Gender Genie a couple months ago. I seem to remember that most of my stuff rates in the mid-sixties for manliness. The software that you put the entry into has a pretty high margin of error, but the actual algorithm from the paper upon which Gender Genie is based is fairly accurate.

--Mike Sheffler
... turning to the 3-D map, we see an unmistakable cone of ignorance

 
At 9:06 PM, Blogger Don Sheffler said...

I stumbled onto it when I was wandering through the murky online discussions concerning Hot Abercrombie Chick's real identity. Some clever dude gave it a shot and proved beyond any doubt that perhaps just maybe she's a he.

I didn't try the Gender Genie on my own site. Maybe I was busy. But I'll bet feeding Haiku into the Gender Genie gets ugly. Or, purty.

 
At 3:45 PM, Blogger Omni said...

Amanda's a man, alright; if you know anything about psychology and watch "her" reactions to being argued with, you'll be 100% sure.

Gender Genie consistently pegs MY writings as quite masculine; I'm told all the time that I think like a man, so maybe there's a connection.

 
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