[lbo-talk] gender guesser

Jenny Brown jbrown72073 at cs.com
Mon Mar 10 08:07:08 PDT 2008



>Guesses the sex of the author of a piece of prose:
>
><http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.html#Analyze>.
>
>I'm 63-75% male.
>
>Doug

And I'm, apparently, 65-85% male (3 samples). I'm vaguely insulted.

John Thornton noted that the site cautions:
>"In particular, men should not be offended if it says
>you write like a girl."

Leaving aside the appalling use of 'girl' there, what about the other way around?

Jenny Brown



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