NP The surprisingly inaccurate gender genie!

[Otto]

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From: "Jasper Fidget" <jasper at hatguild.org>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 9:36 PM
Subject: NP The surprisingly inaccurate gender genie!


> 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?
>

Submitting the text of my own opening page:

"The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: Female!"

I knew that I was either in the wrong body or on the wrong planet.

Otto