I fed my post about that recent CCFA webinar (Back to the basics: another IBD webinar from CCFA ) to the Gender Genie author-gender-predictorator-thingie. Hilariously, it decided I am male, which makes me think there's a fundamental flaw in the algorithm (barring the one that assumes men and women use certain types of words due to their gender) and that is this: in the blog entry, I specifically call myself a lady. Perhaps they're bucking that assumption, though, which is certainly fair.
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| Screencap of my maleness |
If you want to try it out:
Gender Genie
Wow, what kind of algorithm is that thing using? I'm about 2:1 male. Which I have to say pleases me -- not because I want to "write like a man" but because it says it's not that easy to pin down.
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