Gender Genie

[Jezebel]

Gender Genie (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Instructions: Paste a sample of your writing in the gender genie and it will try to guess your gender based on how you write. For best results, use a sample of at least 500 words. It can be from a blog, essay, story, or whatever.

I just did a search on my forum posts and pasted those. It got my gender right, but I'm curious about the rest of you.

[jeffersonian]

I posted my longest entry on this site into gender genie, and it decided I was a female.

Bad guess, but the results indicate that I just barely scored as female. I've often argued against the gender stereotypes and counted myself outside each camp, so maybe I'm right?

[phoenix]

********
Female Score: 300
Male Score: 413

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!
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Nope!

[wise]

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Female Score: 300
Male Score: 413

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!
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Nope!

It thought I was female. Grrrrr!!!!!!!

[anul]

Words: 632
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 1130
Male Score: 1079

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

Wrong again internet!

[Rei]

Words: 1439

(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 1181
Male Score: 2083

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

[hr]

Used a blog entry I posted a few days ago.
I think we can always just write either way at will though. *Depending on how persuasive I want to sound, I could either use more male words than female words, or vice versa. * :thinking:

[hr]

Okay I went through the trouble of doing several more trials.
My blog entries and fictional pieces are approximately female 70% of the time.
Things written for academic purposes however, are male ~100% of the time.

[qwerty]

lol I pasted a story I wrote a few months back and it picked me right :) yay I'm not a girl

[jeffersonian]

Rei, are you suggesting male or female words are more persuasive?

[Rei]

Rei, are you suggesting male or female words are more persuasive?

Judging by the word list they have there. The male words seem to be more definate, but vague and abstract than the female words are. The words on the female list are more geared towards a piece of writing that involoved personal opinions and interpersonal relations.

So as I said before, if I were to write a professional piece for an academic essay, I'd probably be able to make it sound a lot more 'male' than I usually do. Likewise, if I were trying to illustrate/prove a point on my blog, I would sound more male than if I were complaining about some girl I find annoying.

[hr]

NB:

The gender of this post (although it is under 500 words):
Words: 109

(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 183
Male Score: 293

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

[TeleportThis]

I put a couple of different things in. Using research papers, it thought I was male. Email correspondence between friends, female.

[phoenix]

Rei, are you suggesting male or female words are more persuasive?

Judging by the word list they have there. *The male words seem to be more definate, but vague and abstract than the female words are. *The words on the female list are more geared towards a piece of writing that involoved personal opinions and interpersonal relations.

So as I said before, if I were to write a professional piece for an academic essay, I'd probably be able to make it sound a lot more 'male' than I usually do. *Likewise, if I were trying to illustrate/prove a point on my blog, I would sound more male than if I were complaining about some girl I find annoying.

Isn't this a sorry reflection of our culture? That definite, academically inclined words are assumed to have come from a man, and interpersonal and opinion-related words are assumed to have come from a woman. Is it any wonder many men are nervous to express their personal sides and many women feel intimidated by the professional world? It's so ingrained into us that those are our roles that it's not even questioned anymore.

I like to question things. That makes me a threat to many people. I haven't hit the glass ceiling yet, though. We'll see how far I get.

[OneBadMother]

A little less than half the time male, a little more than half the time female. I hardly ever state things in particularly concrete terms, though, since it's not the way I think. :P

[Apococlock]

Words: 1048
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 1743
Male Score: 1690

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


Good god, and here I thought my posts were overflowing with manliness.

[justmeiguess]

I put a couple of different things in. Using research papers, it thought I was male. Email correspondence between friends, female.

A similar thing happened with me. I used a short story and it guessed rightly that I'm female. However, I used a history essay and it thought I was male. Also, strangely, a blog post came up as male too. :o

It seems, like someone mentioned above, that academic precision is equated with being male while emotive language, as found in fiction, is equated with being female.

Being the INTJ that I am, I decided to test this theory. Apparently, Hamlet was written by a woman! :laugh:

[phoenix]

Being the INTJ that I am, I decided to test this theory. Apparently, Hamlet was written by a woman! :laugh:



I'm sure Shakespeare would be shocked...shocked I tell you!

[Firelie]

Words: 612

(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 453
Male Score: 695

I wonder why it's more male to describe the location of something. *And why is "the" masculine? *I used a blog entry.

{Edit: *I tried 3 other blog entries and they all came out as female, so I changed my vote.}

[Jon]

I wonder why it's more male to describe the location of something. *And why is "the" masculine? *I used a blog entry.

I think the algorithm's reasoning is that a woman would use interpersonal words like her or she or my to talk about objects instead of articles, which men would use to seem detatched.

I agree with phoenix in that it is a sorry reflection of our culture. People take so many things for granted. I wonder what kind of art Mel Bochner would make about gender.

Following justmeiguess's lead, I tested the only text I saw necessary to test. Apparently the theme song for The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was written by a woman.

[Rei]

Rei, are you suggesting male or female words are more persuasive?

Judging by the word list they have there. *The male words seem to be more definate, but vague and abstract than the female words are. *The words on the female list are more geared towards a piece of writing that involoved personal opinions and interpersonal relations.

So as I said before, if I were to write a professional piece for an academic essay, I'd probably be able to make it sound a lot more 'male' than I usually do. *Likewise, if I were trying to illustrate/prove a point on my blog, I would sound more male than if I were complaining about some girl I find annoying.

Isn't this a sorry reflection of our culture? That definite, academically inclined words are assumed to have come from a man, and interpersonal and opinion-related words are assumed to have come from a woman. Is it any wonder many men are nervous to express their personal sides and many women feel intimidated by the professional world? It's so ingrained into us that those are our roles that it's not even questioned anymore.

I like to question things. That makes me a threat to many people. I haven't hit the glass ceiling yet, though. We'll see how far I get.


Sad... but as long as you learn how to manipulate it... you won't have to worry about it bogging you down. There has to be a basis for everything... How can you break rules if they don't exist? ;)

[Tarrick]

I fed it two chapters out of one of my stories. Result: One was male, one was female.

Go figure.

[Max T]

Female Score: 286
Male Score: 494
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!
Correct! :thumbsup:

The text was a process for analysing publicly-listed companies' business strategy. *A reasonably masculine topic?

Curiously, the subject matter itself is completely irrelevant to the 'gender genie'- it's how you write it that counts (via use of keywords).
So a feminine fiction novel of sordid seduction (i.e. feminine subject matter) could be written in a masculine style (i.e. with masculine keywords) and therefore be registered by genie as written by a male.

But the novel would most likely lack appeal to the target reader (women) if it were written in a male style, on the premise that a woman can write a feminine fiction novel from a woman's perspective (=more appealing) better than a man can.

So, the gender genie suggests that how you write your subject matter will affect whether it appeals more to the male or to the female reader.

If this thinking is reasonable, then we could turn the genie from currently a passive tool into an active one.
The gender genie tool is quite useless as it currently is- just passively says f/m- we know what our gender is!
But inverting this gender genie tool to state "based on your text, women/ men will find it more appealing (be more receptive)" makes it more useful.
So perhaps next time we're writing to a largely male or largely female audience, the genie tool could be used to judge whether we've used the appropriate keywords for our target audience.

Another possible application:
We might assume that we all have a consistent writing style as interpreted by gender genie.
If this is the case, the genie could be useful to identify whether someone wrote an article they claim to have written or not. * You test the M/F ratio of their other writings, and if the sample under examination significantly differs on M/F scale... then they didn't write that sample!
(the above was still written by a male 598m/470f, phew!... urrm can the INTJ females relate to it?). * ;)



Isn't this a sorry reflection of our culture? That definite, academically inclined words are assumed to have come from a man, and interpersonal and opinion-related words are assumed to have come from a woman. Is it any wonder many men are nervous to express their personal sides and many women feel intimidated by the professional world? It's so ingrained into us that those are our roles that it's not even questioned anymore.

Yes v. interesting phoenix. * Who does the ingraining? society (nurture) I guess. * The male and female assumed words could be developed during childhood. * *So the mother/ female community encourage and reinforce use of interpersonal words by women and vice versa for men. * Same goes for attraction to colour- warm shades of toys and clothes for girls, other side of spectrum for boys. * A gender genie could be created for colour- "which of these two do you prefer?... and these two... you're are deemed by society to be a boy/girl/colour blind!" ;D

[Rei]

Female Score: 286
Male Score: 494
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!
Correct! :thumbsup:

The text was a process for analysing publicly-listed companies' business strategy. A reasonably masculine topic?

Curiously, the subject matter itself is completely irrelevant to the 'gender genie'- it's how you write it that counts (via use of keywords).
So a feminine fiction novel of sordid seduction (i.e. feminine subject matter) could be written in a masculine style (i.e. with masculine keywords) and therefore be registered by genie as written by a male.

But the novel would most likely lack appeal to the target reader (women) if it were written in a male style, on the premise that a woman can write a feminine fiction novel from a woman's perspective (=more appealing) better than a man can.

So, the gender genie suggests that how you write your subject matter will affect whether it appeals more to the male or to the female reader.

If this thinking is reasonable, then we could turn the genie from currently a passive tool into an active one.
The gender genie tool is quite useless as it currently is- just passively says f/m- we know what our gender is!
But inverting this gender genie tool to state "based on your text, women/ men will find it more appealing (be more receptive)" makes it more useful.
So perhaps next time we're writing to a largely male or largely female audience, the genie tool could be used to judge whether we've used the appropriate keywords for our target audience.

Another possible application:
We might assume that we all have a consistent writing style as interpreted by gender genie.
If this is the case, the genie could be useful to identify whether someone wrote an article they claim to have written or not. You test the M/F ratio of their other writings, and if the sample under examination significantly differs on M/F scale... then they didn't write that sample!
(the above was still written by a male 598m/470f, phew!... urrm can the INTJ females relate to it?). ;)
....

The first idea is actually a very good idea. I should keep in mind to do this before I hand in my next essay :thumbsup:
However, the second would probably be less probable. As I said, I (as most people) can alter my writing style depending on the purpose of the passage. Furthermore, I've fed it entries from my blog that (I usually) don't bother changing my tone for, and I still get very different numbers ranging from very feminine (f=2m points) to very masculine (m=2f points).
[hr]
Words: 91
55F/103M
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

[Max T]

However, the second would probably be less probable. *As I said, I (as most people) can alter my writing style depending on the purpose of the passage.
Yes I see. * And if we're not deliberately changing style as you mention, we're vulnerable to subconsciously changing style, as thinking about the topic will affect our writing style.

[Rei]

(now silly mode)
Where I empathise with your views, I feel that we should consider them as though they were my own.
Computer says female 102:23. ;D

I totally missed the meaning of this sentence :thumbsup:

[Max T]

(now silly mode)
Where I empathise with your views, I feel that we should consider them as though they were my own.
Computer says female 102:23. ;D

I totally missed the meaning of this sentence *:thumbsup:

:) Wasn't really me that wrote it (and I tried to delete it... but you're too quick!).

Smilies aren't working :(
Gender genie killed them in a fit of jealousy.

[Opti]

Words: 870

Female Score: 1729
Male Score: 923

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

It is nice not to come out as male/masculine for once!

[Unknown]

I put a couple of different things in. *Using research papers, it thought I was male. *Email correspondence between friends, female.

For me fiction was rated as female, research as male.

[wolf]

Too lazy to find some samples, but I know I come in female.

[More Tea]

New poster; this topic grabbed my interest so much I had to join! I am female who usually gets INTJ on personality tests (but am very borderline on T-F, J-P), and had the following results:

1) On an excerpt from an original, 30-page legal research paper (Non-fiction Tab) the Gender Genie scored it as heavily male:

Female Score: 279
Male Score: 750

I got male again on another legal paper concerning a more "touchy-feely" subject.

Female Score: 3286
Male Score: 5222

2) On a personal blog entry (Blog Tab), the Gender Genie again identified me as male:

Female Score: 804
Male Score: 1120

3) It finally identified me correctly as female on two pieces of fiction (Fiction Tab):

Female Score: 1119
Male Score: 1061

and

Female Score: 1774
Male Score: 1371

I also fiddled around with misidentifying the type of writing with tabs, and got the same breakdown.

Verdict: an interesting exercise, and it throughly confirms my original antipathy against the inane "theories" of John Gray, whom they refer to in the article. ::)

[Rei]

Smilies aren't working :(
Gender genie killed them in a fit of jealousy.


*dies laughing* :laugh:

[Entropy]

Gender Genie gets my gender wrong pretty consistently. Out of a possible seven entries, it's only got it correct once.

[celesul]

It got it wrong almost every time. It keeps saying I'm male, even when I use letters to friends. *::) The one time it was right was when I used something written at about 1am.

Apparently, Martin Luther King was female according to it.

It said this post is male also.

[grey]

Letter to a male:

Words: 451
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)
Female Score: 567
Male Score: 800
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Letter to a female:

Words: 1236
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)
Female Score: 2807
Male Score: 1869
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

I probably should have found several different pieces in pairs of similar lengths. Still, I would have expected, without the wisdom of this genius of a genie to at all affect my understanding, that different audiences require different tones and vocabularies, in order to most effectively communicate. The assumptions made in the application of this tool seem awfully silly, if it supposes that writing is voiced always from the perspective of the writer, instead of being crafted specifically with the audience in mind.

[thegnat]

well - on one long blog entry it thought I was male. Which is wrong but I'm not entirely surprised. I'm a quick, to the point, less descriptive, not touchy-feely or emotional, writer. I'm also not a great writer.

On another shorter piece of random stuff - but about my lab report because I have to write it soon - female. Because of my we's etc...I have to get used to that damn impersonal passive voice though! Hydrochloric acid was added....x and y were reacted...blech!

I think I'll do this to my lab report whenever I get it written....On Halloween! oooh scary.....(it's due then, I'm not trick or treating! unless you consider being a nerd a costume hehe)

[WigglesALittle]

My fiction and most of my academic writing was incredibly male. Everything that the Gender Genie said was "female" was something I had written about myself--an autobiography or personal opinion stuff, using words like "I" and "me". Hmmm...

[Natrushka]

Ha! It thought I was male. Too funny.

Words: 627
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 525
Male Score: 943

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

[ShaiGar]

pasteded my summary from shaigar.org

'pparently i'm male. YAY! *though i wouldnt mind being a gay female. boobies *:D

But my summary is highly emotive and personal... i guess being arrogant counts as being male.

[Raven Queen]

Funnily enough, fiction about a male was rated male, while those about a female, as well as my blog entry, was female..

[thegnat]

I'd honestly like to see the basis for these words being "male" or "female".

Once I get a little more written on my lab report, I'll try it and see if it turns out male or female.

[Jezebel]

Once I get a little more written on my lab report, I'll try it and see if it turns out male or female.
My bet is a lab report will be male.

[thegnat]

Once I get a little more written on my lab report, I'll try it and see if it turns out male or female.
My bet is a lab report will be male.


I'm betting so too. But there are a lot of "was"es and past tense verbs in there and "was" is considered "female". Ah, the passive voice...

It was bet that a lab report would be considered "male." However there were a lot of verbs of past tense and "was" was considered "female". Ah, the passive voice....

[snoogit]

Words: 586
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 1074
Male Score: 992

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

This is incorrect. *checks pants* Yes this is incorrect.

[childofforest]

Words: 276

(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 167
Male Score: 434

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

Gee, I cut paste in most of my writings and the genie says I'm male.
I definitely think this genie has a non credible way of deciding the gender!!

[thegnat]

I have a theory as to why they choose these words, however I'm not sure about its scientific accuracy.

The following is my theory:

with,if,not,where,be,when,your,her,we,should,she,a nd,me,myself,hers,was: "feminine"

around,what,more,are,as,who,below,is,these,the,a,a t,it,many,said,above,to: "masculine"

Notice the feminine words like: if, should, not: These express uncertainty. Women in general are probably going to be a bit less certain, talk about things, like gossip and hypothesize (well whatever you would call it, not sure hypothesis is the correct terminology here) who is going to be with who, if this happens then oh my god, what's going to happen with me?! Which gives us a great segway to the following:
me,myself,hers,she,we,your,her,hers: They're all "people" words. Women will probably tend to be more apt to "people talk".
and, with: These are connectors to the people words. You're going to have more than one person involved in people talk, so you need connectors.
be,was: words to do with states of being. And the "was" with reflection with respect to state of being. And I think this connects to the "in touch with their emotions and a bit more emotional" stereotype.

Masculine words:
is, are: in the here and now! think present.
what,it,these: impersonal identifications of things.
a,the,more,many: articles/descriptors to go before objects and more impersonal statements. a radio, the house, many trees....
around,above,below: relationships between the world around them, but impersonal. like between objects.
to: to place a to place b? Kind of navigational tendencies? I don't really have a great guess.
as: not sure. more comparing things? perhaps women compare people more often with "like" and men compare things with "as"?
who: Could describe a person as what they do.
said: I don't really get this one. Or even have a guess. It's a past verb on speaking. Like "he said she said" but it obviously can't be related to gossip.

Those are my *guesses* as to why they chose those words as masculine or feminine. But I don't think it's very scientific. Or very accurate. And obviously in different situations you are going to write differently. Like talking about what you did with your friends. Probably first person, more personal and more feminine. Less personal entries will be read as masculine. And of course you *can* write about times with friends as less personal and stuff. It just depends on what you're writing.

For 273 words of my lab report it thinks I'm female. With, and, and was did me in. I had no other feminine words. And those are probably the least personal of the "feminine" words. as,the, and to were my masculine words. However it'd probably become more masculine as I discuss it a bit more. and write more on it, period.

It tells me this post is male.

Edit: I probably sound robotic because I have been reading scientific papers, and entering data. But this was interesting to follow up and see if I could figure it out cause I'm done with what I can do for the day academically.

[Naokohiro]

Interesting how inaccurate it can be.
I used a sample of a fictional story I wrote, and I got more accurate results.

Words: 892
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 831
Male Score: 1215

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

So, it guessed right... I guess...

[thegnat]

Words: 1033
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 839
Male Score: 1379

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

On my lab report. Part of it.

[aelan]

I put a couple of different things in. *Using research papers, it thought I was male. *Email correspondence between friends, female.

For me fiction was rated as female, research as male.

Fiction was female, philosophy was male.

[chocky]

Another girl in guys' wording here.

Three different samples, three wrong conclusions.

[Jennywocky]

Mostly I get ID'ed as female.

Sometimes (1/3 of the time?) I get ID'ed as male.

I don't really think word choice is indicative of the writer's physiological gender. It might be able to indicate masculine/feminine style writing; but men and women vary so greatly (some women can be more masculine than some men and vice versa -- yet they're STILL women [and men]) and can use various forms of communication at will, depending on the purpose of the writing.

So it seems more like a fun party trick, but not something that can be taken too seriously.

[Bossy Mom]

I am a female and it said I was female.

[Marja]

These scores are close, especially the first. I'm female, but usually test male.

Research paper:

Words: 1897
Female Score: 2243
Male Score: 2241

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

Fiction:

Words: 806
Female Score: 1182
Male Score: 1240

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

[WavesSootheMe]

I am female. I usually test male on gender tests. I entered several blogs/letters and all of these came back female. I then entered blogs/letters from male friends of mine and these too came back female. Last, I entered my personal statement and other formal writings. These came back male.

It seems more indicative of the type/style of writing. Blogs and letters tend to be more personal, people-centered and speculative. Formal writings should exude certainty and are often about, big surprise, formal topics rather than people.

[Darklord]

Apparently, I am now female. This sudden transformation has left me somewhat unsettled, and I will require several days alone in a room with my computer and a few games to get back into my own skin.

[oppugno1215]

Hmmm.... I tried this test eight times with various selections of my work and it consistently (and erroneously) said "Male". Then again, I have a dominant male brain, so maybe that shows in my writing.

[coffeeloverfreak]

I tested a bunch of different entries from my blog. Some came out as male, others as female. (I'm female, by the way).

There doesn't seem to be much to this tool. It's more of a "fun meme" than a true scientific test.

[ginandsour]

Words: 538

(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 567
Male Score: 829

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

<--Female.

[Ace1337]

The test was right, I am a male.

[Pinkie]

670 words.

Female score - 1054
Male score - 1375

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

WRONG!!!

I used a part of an essay I handed in a month ago on syntactic theory. I'm surprised, given that 'not' is apparently a feminine keyword and the essay itself was about the contraction of the word 'not' to 'n't'. On the other hand, I'm completely unsurprised, seeing as according to every test I take I have an immensely unfeminine brain.

[szaxazs]

Words: 637
Female Score: 846
Male Score: 1153
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Interesting.

[RoqueBear]

Very interesting.

*Research Paper*
Words: 1601
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 1267
Male Score: 3040

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

*Ethical Theory Paper*
Words: 1386
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 1736
Male Score: 2595

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

It was correct both times.

[Zilal]

Ha. I posted one of my girliest stories and it thought I was male, by a hair. I posted some text from a scientific term paper I wrote and it thought I was male by a much bigger margin, of course.

[AgentofGaming]

Huge document on how to play a very complex computer game I wrote in Gr. 11
Words: 3864
Female Score: 3175
Male Score: 5530

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

A post about why people should use proper English online.
Words: 308
Female Score: 415
Male Score: 391

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

Excerpts of Environmental Issues, and Economics of Engineering report presentation
Words: 1007
Female Score: 1033
Male Score: 1375

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

[OneBadMother]

When I do papers, always male. When stories, almost always female. When basic plot descriptions or descriptions of my characters, more on the male side.

Once I got "indeterminate" on the Gender Genie. I had actually put in text that involved two short stories of sorts, one about a hot-blooded guy and another about a cool-headed and rational girl. Maybe the sort of character you write affects things too.

Also, I did an experiment where I changed all the female pronouns in a story to male. It switched the text from being female to male, which I thought was interesting. So, if you write about female characters, apparently you're female? :P

EDIT: Apparently, before I put in this edit, the text of this post came up "unknown" too. XD

[pavman]

So I fed a bunch of fiction/non-fiction stuff to this thing that I wrote in college... about half said they were female.

HMM. I'm male. Screw gender genie!

[amXDuser]

Fed the Genie with one of my personal writings..
Words: 767

Female Score: 990
Male Score: 1000

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!
Sounds about right.

[Nightelf]

Words: 639
Female Score: 399
Male Score: 1237

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

It thougt I was male: bad guess!

[Scooby]

Female Score: 1166
Male Score: 1157

Hmmn, I am male.

[Kfbr]

Female Score: 686
Male Score: 465

Naw, I'm a dude

Apparently a gay dude :(

[Antares]

I'm a female. My post was short, but it was right nonetheless. I thought it was too romantic 0___o

When snow was falling in a whisper, the fire crackled jubilantly ablaze of golden ember; steam still rose from a mug of rich, dark cocoa. Jolly fiddles sped away in the background as a whirlwind of icy waltz raged outside. Flakes crossed and unwound; soaring freely like a shaken snow globe. A man in the snow stood with harmonious serenity with buckets and shovels at his feet, upon his face a frozen, blithesome smile of buttons. The fir trees faded and fairies rejoiced and the land wore a stark white coat. There was a fleeting shadow of swift unicorns who danced across the frozen pond which shone with blatant delight underneath the smiling winter sun. The world melted into glorious silver and the emerald meadow blanched. Mischief and sounds deteriorated into restful placidity, and all was silent when snow was falling in a whisper.

[AgentofGaming]

Female Score: 686
Male Score: 465

Naw, I'm a dude

Apparently a gay dude :(
:laugh:
not happy with the results? poor you, don't let the discriminating gender genie get you down.
Write more about video games or science next time. :thumbsup:

Lab Report: Lab #4 – Transient Response in RC Circuits
Words: 1255
Female Score: 932
Male Score: 1743

[denaria]

Female Score: 1350
Male Score: 2654

This was so wrong. I used a business report. But it does seem to be looking for personal pronouns - which would have been totally inappropriate in this context.

[Zirka]

Biology Research Paper
Words: 2551
Female Score: 1556
Male Score: 4124

Short Story for English class
Words: 630
Female Score: 559
Male Score: 685

I tested male, but I'm female. Interesting.

[Antares]

History Newspaper Project Editorial - Perry and Harris: Male
History Newspaper Project Article - Yoshinobu signs Harris Treaty: Male

Curious. I got female for my vignettes. Perhaps it's the nature of the writing.

[Llen]

Words: 759

(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 523
Male Score: 749

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


:thinking:*Looks down*:thinking:
Gentalia confirmed. I'm female.

[INTJoe]

Words: 487

(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 508
Male Score: 846

Correct! It was an email I sent a male friend about Property Taxes. How is "the" a male word? lol.

[Snowdragon]

Female Score: 590
Male Score: 573

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

[TheLastMohican]

I entered 10 writing samples, all more than 500 words (most more than 1,000). I had to combine posts for some of them, but I made sure the posts were from the same threads. Eight were scored as male and two were scored as female. The male scores tended to be much higher than the female scores. An estimate of the 10-sample total scores would be about 11,000 male, 7,500 female.

[SimplyOtter]

right for me! I pasted some posts from this forum:

Female Score: 1558
Male Score: 1304

ummh. I wonder if it works with my mothertongue language. Will it understand it?

* goes back and tries how smart Gender Genie is*

EDIT:
haha! this is just hilarious! I'm Female in English and Male in my mothertongue!! but this is the result (on a 824 words document):

Female Score: 8
Male Score: 84

I guess Gender Genie tried to be cool, but couldn't understand one word...hahaha.:p
Any other of you did the same experiment? it would be interesting to know...

[OneHertz]

Tried with ~10 of my longer writing pieces and it always identifies me as male ranging from male to female scores of 2:1 to 3:1. Pretty darn accurate I would say... Too accurate *paranoid*

[Elfrun]

Female Score: 1061
Male Score: 1460

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

BAH!

Female Score: 566
Male Score: 626

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

*sigh*

It's official I am a man.

[Jane]

Still masculine!

But I tested it with several other blog posts, they turn out to alternate between male and female.

Its the way I feel that day actually. I feel partcularly objective and lethargic when I write the posts that turned out to be masculine.

[ssrprotege]

Female Score: 527
Male Score: 526

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

Heh!





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It's official I am a man.

Your animus must have been quite bored, Trin. :evil:

[Elfrun]

Apparently using the word 'the' is a male thing to do :suspicious: wtf?

[PHS Philip]

I would make a joke about males and articles, but it's too easy :p

[Max]

From a story I wrote:

Female Score: 865
Male Score: 589

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



From a blog I wrote:

Female Score: 359
Male Score: 748

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



Hmm... :thinking:

[athenian200]

Female Score: 619
Male Score: 570

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

I've tested it on several writings in the past, and my male and female scores are usually quite close together. I was described by one person online as having the most androgynous personality they'd seen, so I can believe it.

[True Rune]

I just put in a paper I wrote..
Words: 909
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 1071
Male Score: 1398

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

[Liason]

Words: 2178

Female Score: 3364
Male Score: 2450

It got it right unsurprisingly. Even I can do that.





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However, I naturally alter the way I write into different genders(a skill every good fiction writer needs to be capable of if they write of a main character who's gender is not their own.

Female Score: 168
Male Score: 285
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

[iMiki]

Words: 636

Female Score: 450
Male Score: 823

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

Nope, I'm female. So I guess that makes me masculine-minded. I tested with three writing samples. I came out as male in all three. Above is my first result.

I don't get it. So there is such thing as masculine and feminine words? If so, what makes them so?

[Evil Eye]

Words: 883
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 1351
Male Score: 1353

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

I guess it works- but it had a 50:50 chance anyway.

[Fej]

Words: 272
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 222
Male Score: 543

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



Well done Genie! lol

[Jakalwarrior]

Words: 868
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 1062
Male Score: 1429

[Mittens]

Term paper:
Female Score: 378
Male Score: 909

Speech:
Female Score: 749
Male Score: 756

Informative paper:
Female Score: 750
Male Score: 942

My views on death:
Female Score: 398
Male Score: 932

On persuasion:
Female Score: 633
Male Score: 831

Humor piece:
Female Score: 1247
Male Score: 1046

FINALLY! I am female, goddamnit. I am.

[TheLastMohican]

Humor piece:
Female Score: 1247
Male Score: 1046

FINALLY! I am female, goddamnit. I am.

Apparently only when you're in good humor.

[Cygnus]

From a fictional short story

Words: 1760

(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 2028
Male Score: 2547

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

From another fiction short story!

Words: 698

(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 888
Male Score: 822

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

Which is cool..since both of the charatcers in the story...are female!

[mkay]

LOL. I already know what gender I am. I don't need confirmation.

[Seppuku Savant]

Female Score: 129
Male Score: 218

It thinks I'm a male. This is incorrect, but o.k. with me.

[ChrisM]

Words: 1014
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 1386
Male Score: 1639

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


Bingo.

[Andantino]

Wow. This sucks. I did it for a recent thread I posted on INTPc and here are the results:

Words: 683

(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 727
Male Score: 1130

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


WRONG!!!! This isn't fun. Let's try again.

Words: 191

(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 146
Male Score: 326

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

DANG!!! This has to be a joke. I'm going to try a longer one. Alright, this a blog entry from when I was really emotional. Let's see where that gets me.

Words: 1534

(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 2385
Male Score: 1648

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

Finally! Geez. I'm not sure if I should be offended or not... :embarassed:

[Antares]

Words: 682
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 856
Male Score: 1255

That was a nonfiction critique (I write quite a lot of them, but I don't post them)

Words: 403
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 515
Male Score: 725
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

My programme notes on Beethoven for DipABRSM.

Words: 293
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 299
Male Score: 448
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

My out-of-proportion, overblown analysis of Potassium Permanganate.

I should sign up for a surgery. Obviously I'm not in the right sex.

However, just to be fair, all of my previous entries are rather short. Here is my 1000 word essay on Astrology (which I wrote on my own accord, thank you very much).

Words: 1213
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 1626
Male Score: 2258
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Words: 859
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 1542
Male Score: 1326
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

Oh finally. My rant about Creationism has gone one step in proving that I'm actually a female.

[ness2361]

I'd have to go see for myself but seems to me, based on the posts I'm reading, that the criteria used to put together the test was sexist, and how surprising is that, really? Still, gender used to mean feminine or masculine (social trait) as opposed to female/male (biological base), and now gender is more often used as synonymous with sex, so what am I saying... I don't know if the person who put together the test was using outdated criteria, or an outdated test, or what.





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OK, I just tried it out: First I submitted a letter I wrote to a new female friend and I got back, 'female'; then I submitted a letter I wrote to a younger sister and got back 'male'. (I submitted both as blog entries). Next, I submitted a portion of a fiction piece I am working on and got 'female'. Then I submitted a published flash fiction piece of mine and got 'female.' Finally, I submitted an Amazon Vine book review of mine and got back 'male.' As I've often considered myself androgynous, in terms of gender (feminine/masculine traits, not biology), there's nothing shocking in the results, and only one area of interest for me: I write more 'cool' style letters to my younger sister than I do to my new friend.

[idem]

I tried four times, using two essays and two creative pieces. The Gender Genie thought that the author of the essays was male and the author of the other two pieces was female.

[LionsPride]

That was fascinating. While my longer posts were assessed to be female, by a ratio of 2 to 1 in some cases, my short stories were gender neutral (+/- 20) and lay on either side of the line. My technical writing for engineering swung either way depending on the section. (recommendations were marginally female, background and description was 2:1 for male)

I think the reason for this is women are known to make protective prefacing statements prior to stating their opinion such as,

"correct me if I'm wrong, but..."

or

"This may be a crazy idea, but..."

I noticed the feminine words were "may" and "if" whereas masculine was "are" and other definitive terms.

In my posts on the forum, I usually refrain from definitive statements as you just get 18 people attempting to prove that "all" was an overstatement. I find it keeps the discussion on the theory and not the details. I also use similar phrasing in my engineering reports as saying the material will withstand the treatment could be bite me in the ass legally. Saying it may withstand the treatment covers my ass...Apparently, that is a very feminine thing to do. ;) Obviously, I don't feel the need to speak so strategically in my own short stories. :laugh:

[Harmony]

Well I did a little testing... In a normal, random, happy blog it guesses correctly, that I am a girl... However, if I use an angry, irritated, pissed off blog, it thinks I'm a guy! :p

They are both really close though, something like always 20 points within the other one.

[Shorgenfunkel]

Female Score: 921
Male Score: 1289

[dalidaisy]

I used 2 works of fiction that I wrote fairly recently...

First one:

Female Score: 739
Male Score: 1062

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

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Second one:

Female Score: 902
Male Score: 442

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.


What does this say about me, anyway?

[rara avis]

I just tried one of my longer thread replies, on the topic of aesthetics. (I'm at work - don't have any of my own writing to hand.)

Words: 393 (NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 556
Male Score: 507

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

My most commonly used "female" word was AND - at a count of 7. :laugh:

[Sinequanon]

I uploaded a chunk from the last critical essay I wrote (just a couple of days ago) and it was about 4:1 male:female.

Fair enough. :)

[AliTree]

i typed from my mind random thoughts on politics. i typed 295 words and they correctly said i'm a female.

Female Score: 673
Male Score: 380

[Harmony]

Using the first part of my novel....

Words: 1999
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 2437
Male Score: 2244

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

[Storm]

It really depended on what kind of work I put in it:
Fiction: Female (may be because the main character is female)
Nonficition essay on literature: Female
Blog entry: Male

Might as well have flipped a coin.

[Harmony]

It really depended on what kind of work I put in it:
Fiction: Female (may be because the main character is female)
Nonficition essay on literature: Female
Blog entry: Male

Might as well have flipped a coin.

Interesting. My main character thus far has been a male... And it still pegged me as a female.

[Linwenilid]

LOL, I confounded the Gender Genie!

Female Score: 441
Male Score: 441

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

The Gender Genie is completely confounded. Try going back to the text box and entering a different text.

But it did guess correctly with my next two tries. :)

[quest ion]

Female Score: 337 Male Score: 692
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Sort of knew it!

[Feral]

Interesting.

I posted a bit from a blog, and I my male score was almost double my female score.

I posted the whole thing, and they were almost even (1057/1037), barely coming up female.

[Cocoa]

Words: 381
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 283
Male Score: 602

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


WRONG :P.... I'm female... I guess I write like a man!!

[intellael]

Words: 680

Female Score: 714
Male Score: 1457

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

I am a dude... o_o

[iseesound]

Words: 624. I submitted part of an essay I got a really good grade on.

Female Score: 772
Male Score: 1077

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

I am not a boy!

[Maedhi]

Word: 952

Female Score: 866
Male Score: 1609

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

Got me right.

[Stratego]

I used a sample from a blog entry, and the genie said I was male:
Female Score: 123
Male Score: 145

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


Interesting...

[eNV]

I used a book review I had done over Orphan Pamuck's Snow.

Words: 782

Female Score: 478
Male Score: 1287

Got me right.

[skycloud86]

Most of my posts and other writings of mine online come out as male, but a sizeable minority come out as female.

[SelfMadeBum]

Female Score: 255
Male Score: 888

Nope. Sorry.

[Latro]

I posted a ~3000 word essay from this last semester. I got 2457 female and 5720 male, so they guessed right. I submitted a shorter, ~1000 word work also from last semester, and got 1304 female and 1539 male. Another one of about 1000 words yielded 901 female and 1264 male.

An interesting test.
I used a sample from a blog entry, and the genie said I was male:
Female Score: 123
Male Score: 145

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


Interesting...
With numbers that low, you probably didn't post 500+ words...

[Iced]

Words: 508
Female Score: 563
Male Score: 581

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

+1 cognition essay.

[Synth2012]

Female Score: 84
Male Score: 532

Waaaaaay off. Based on a "journal entry" for one of my business classes.

[WoodElf4U]

I tested 4 different texts I had, 3 out of for labeled as female, one as male. All fiction, the one with more action and violence had been marked male. Perhaps different writing styles put out different impressions.

[Latro]

I wrote a paper this evening and got roughly 1130 1230, favoring male. It was right again.

[Nameless]

It said I was female when I'm not, but I only used 273 words. Wrong!

[The Psyentist]

It was less than 500 words, but

Female Score: 381
Male Score: 621

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

[musiclover]

Oh, no!

Results:
(Words: 531 used my English school essay)

Female Score: 340
Male Score: 633
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

And wrong for me also!!

[Squirelznflight]

Results:

Poem I wrote to the theme of "The Road Not Taken":

Words: 405
Female Score: 399
Male Score: 654
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Chapter 1 of a Transformers G1 fanfic I thought sounded quite emotionally charged at the time:

Words: 2066
Female Score: 1953
Male Score: 2701
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

So it's wrong on both counts. A couple of exerpts from my novel-in-progress come out male/female at about a 50/50 distribution depending on where I pull them from. Though that says little about me since I go into my 1st-person-narrating character's personality while writing (closest to an ESTP or ENTJ).

[Plastikcat]

Female Score: 1291
Male Score: 973

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female

Female? Oh my..

[uneingenue]

I put in two non-consequitive paragraphs (though written on the same day) from a non-fiction piece i wrote about myself.

of the first paragraph, it said i was female, of the second male. all together:


Words: 1320

Female Score: 2195
Male Score: 1659

correct!