Guess the Gender (BBC writing link)

[neonlyte]

The link is to a upcoming Romance prize - the BBC is asking readers to guess the male writer from six short extracts. I thought it fairly obvious, as do most readers judging from the votes cast.

BBC Link - Guess the Gender

 

[wishfulthinking]

I'll go check it out, sounds interesting.

Could be a red herring, could be a trick and only 1 female writer in the field. Who knows!

Where's that link someone posted about the gender guesser when you need it

 

[wishfulthinking]

Ok, me wrong

Now, using a gender guesser that ranked 1 on my google search, I will see what it has to say:

http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.html

Warning: spoilers below based on gender guesser:

Genre: informal/formal

Eg of informal - blog
Eg of formal - non-fiction

1 - male/male
2 - male/male - this is the one I had chosen
3 - female/male
4 - male/female
5 - female/male- the one actually written by a bloke
6 - female/female

 

[angelicminx]

I got it right! What do I win?

 

[neonlyte]

Ok, me wrong

Now, using a gender guesser that ranked 1 on my google search, I will see what it has to say:

http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.html

Warning: spoilers below based on gender guesser:

Genre: informal/formal

Eg of informal - blog
Eg of formal - non-fiction

1 - male/male
2 - male/male - this is the one I had chosen
3 - female/male
4 - male/female
5 - female/male- the one actually written by a bloke
6 - female/female

Tut Tut... shame on you

 

[neonlyte]

I got it right! What do I win?

Well done! It was easy wasn't it! Well... except for Wishful