NP The surprisingly inaccurate gender genie!

Vincent A. Maeder vmaeder at cycn-phx.com
Thu Sep 4 15:20:17 CDT 2003


Well, it's one for one on my own writing, so either I'm androgynous or the
genie ain't so accurate.  

V.

P.S. or my writing is VERY inconsistent, which is always a possibility, you
know.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Monroe [mailto:monrovius at yahoo.com]
> 
> Scroll down for your results...
> 
> Original: I never thought I'd be writing to your
> magazine, but ...
> 
> Keywords: i never thought i'd be writing to
> [possessive pronoun] magazine but
> 
> Score: -3
> Words: 10
> 
> The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is:
> Female!
> 
> http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.php
> 
> --- Jasper Fidget <jasper at hatguild.org> wrote:
> >
> > Inspired by an article in The New York Times
> > Magazine, the Gender Genie uses 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. Read more about the algorithm at
> > nature.com.
> >
> > http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html
> >
> > Ever wonder if your online dating pal was really a
> > dude?
> 
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