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Aug. 29th, 2003 08:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogYes, I'm still futzing around with the computer. Yes, I'll be good and stop soon. But the Gender Genie is interesting.
It uses an algorithm co designed by a couple of university staff members, one from Israel and one from Illinois, to parse a block of text and decide whether the author is male or female. What I find really interesting is that I tried it with 5 different paragraphs from recent entries in my LiveJournal, and in every case it decided that the author was female. I have long known that I am not 'wired' like a typical male and that I in fact have a lot of feminine characteristics. An interesting quiz![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
boixboi posted a while ago told me that I have very androgynous characteristics in nearly every area of evaluation. (I should retake that and post the results here sometime if I can find it again. Benjie?) Here, apparently, is another example of that. Unless the algorithm is just flawed. Heh. If anyone else goes and plays with it, let me know if you get interesting results.
By the way, just tried that last paragraph on it. It claims the author is female. Heh.
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(I'm beginning to suspect it's flawed. Even things with more male indicative words than female are coming up female. However, doing tests with just male indicative words will come up male. *shrug*)
It uses an algorithm co designed by a couple of university staff members, one from Israel and one from Illinois, to parse a block of text and decide whether the author is male or female. What I find really interesting is that I tried it with 5 different paragraphs from recent entries in my LiveJournal, and in every case it decided that the author was female. I have long known that I am not 'wired' like a typical male and that I in fact have a lot of feminine characteristics. An interesting quiz
boixboi posted a while ago told me that I have very androgynous characteristics in nearly every area of evaluation. (I should retake that and post the results here sometime if I can find it again. Benjie?) Here, apparently, is another example of that. Unless the algorithm is just flawed. Heh. If anyone else goes and plays with it, let me know if you get interesting results.By the way, just tried that last paragraph on it. It claims the author is female. Heh.
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(I'm beginning to suspect it's flawed. Even things with more male indicative words than female are coming up female. However, doing tests with just male indicative words will come up male. *shrug*)
