The Gender Genie

[Guest]

I know there was a thread on here a little while ago; discussing the findings of an article by Moshe Koppel, published in The New York Times Magazine. It was stated in this article that by using an algorithm it was fairly simple to predict the gender of an author.

Click on this link, and paste in a samll sample of your writing, to find out how your own style of writing stands up to this rigorous test: The Gender Genie

From a sample of my writing (350 words) it deduced that I was male. I scored 432.

I can think of three reasons for why it came up with this result...

A. I think like a man, thus I write like a man.
B. I am kidding everyone, myself included, and my hubby and my kids, I am not a woman I am a man.
C. It's all a load of tosh.

My own conclusions are that it's a mix of A and C. I don't write in a particularly feminine way, I am very direct and I don't put frills on things. However, what on Earth does a computer program know? It is generalising, using steadfst rules.

Here are the Gender Genie's own results page stats...

"Well, you can't be right all of the time.

According to Koppel and Argamon, the algorithm should predict the gender of the author approximately 80% of the time."

Accuracy Results
Am I right?
yes 20600 (49.95%)
no 20640 (50.05%)
41240 total responses since August 15, 2003

Not doing a very good job, is it?

Lou

 

[Guest]

see my point?

 

[deliciously_naughty]

called me a boy...

Look, just b/c I cut my hair short.....


I am a WOMAN, damnit! (LOL)

 

[Guest]

 

[Quasimodem]

I am a Woman, who wrote "The Ghost," in the Snippettsville Stories.

So, I checked the two stories I have on Lit, and suddenly, I am a Man.

I tried entering a story that is published on a sci-fi site this month: I am a Woman, again!



I will go with Tatelou's Option: C.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I tried a 2000 word excerpt of a story I'm writing and I'm a woman. I tried another 3000 words from the same story and I'm a man. I tried the 300 words I wrote this morning and I'm a woman again.

I'm so confused. Can't wait to finish the story and find out what to tell my mother.

 

[Guest]

I'm so confused. Can't wait to finish the story and find out what to tell my mother.

ROFLMAO!

I just tried a different excerpt from the same story that I used earlier, I am a woman again. (Phew!)

I pasted in 1000 words from a different story and I'm back to being a man.

Doesn't seem a very foolproof scientific method, does it? It looks very random to me, especially when you look at the results graph, that could explain why it is correct 50% of the time.

Lou

 

[TheEarl]

See, I told you. I am a lesbian at heart. I put in parts of my two favourite pieces of non-erotic and it told me that I was decidedly female.

The Earl

 

[Guest]

Four different items and a girlie each time. I knew that.

Perdita

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I think that, for the most part, erotica lends itself to being logarithmically girly. It is, after all, about close human relationships, lots of his and hers and withs and what not.

I still stand by my first assessment of Moshe Koppel's article posted in Pure's oh-so-fun thread: manure.

 

[jfinn]

I tried it with male POV's, female POV's, third person, first person... Guess I'm just a girly girl--my true love will be so relieved.

Jayne

 

[Lauren Hynde]

By the way...

According to the posts in this thread, Lou is a man, rhyno's a guy, deliciously_naughty is a girl, rhyno had a sex change and is now a girl, Quasimodem is a man, I am a manly man, just like Lou, but TheEarl is a big girly lesbian, perdita is all woman, I am a woman after all, Jayne is indeed a girly girl, and this post shows clearly that I'm a man!

Yeah.

 

[champagne1982]

Oh Man!

That's kinky cool! For every story exerpt I used which focused on primarily hertrosexual congress the Genie surmised correctly about my sex. The gay male offering was analyzed and put me as a male. Now, that I find freaky!

 

[Guest]

girly girl

Ummm....

I think it's a load of tosh.

It did girl twice for me.

But it's still tosh.

b

 

[Guest]

Re: Oh Man!

That's kinky cool! For every story exerpt I used which focused on primarily hertrosexual congress the Genie surmised correctly about my sex. The gay male offering was analyzed and put me as a male. Now, that I find freaky!

I tried a lesbian story of mine, it still pegs me as a man. Now I'm confused.

It's definitely a load of tosh.

Lou

 

[Guest]

... and this post shows clearly that I'm a man!

Well, I sure do wish you were *my* man, Lauren.

Perdita

 

[JUDO]

...and this post shows clearly that I'm a man!

Yeah, but are you, uhmmm... Big? 'Cause I like big.

:slurp:
- Judo

 

[TheEarl]

Well I tried it with one story from the POV of a man and one from the POV of a lesbian. Both non-erotic. And they both pegged me as a big girl.

Ho hum.

The Earl

 

[Guest]

Ha! I tried it with an erotic horror piece, which includes some extremely hardcore stuff. Now it has me down as a woman. Go figure.

Lou

 

[JUDO]

Hey, Lauren, your box is full. (I know 'cause I filled it.)
- J

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Hey, Lauren, your box is full. (I know 'cause I filled it.)
- J

It just feels full. If you try to squeeze in some more, it will fit. I'm supple.

 

[deliciously_naughty]

r-i-i-g-h-t!
prove it!


rhino

There are pics somewhere on the site

 

[MathGirl]

Accuracy Results
Am I right?
yes 20600 (49.95%)
no 20640 (50.05%)

They could have saved a lot of effort and time by tossing a coin. Of course that wouldn't be scientific and couldn't be published.
MG

 

[pop_54]

Thing's shit

Hey earl honeybunch fancy a bit of dyke sex, it just had me down as female after the first attempt.

Hey the rest of you girls, if any of you have lesbian or bi-sexual tendencies you know where to come, Earl and me just love a bit of girlie play

Sorry Rhino, I don't do men sweetie, not big one's like you anyway

I'm a little teapot short and stout, here's my handle, here's my spout........................................sorry just singing a happy tune.

pops

 

[Guest]

ROTFLMAO!

I cut and pasted my lesbian story Erotic Dance (told in 1st person, female POV) http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=56918 and got this result:

Score: 4896
Words: 10421

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


Then I clicked on the button to inform them they were wrong.

Well, he writes like a girl.

According to Koppel and Argamon, the algorithm should predict the gender of the author approximately 80% of the time.

Accuracy Results
Am I right?
yes 21250 (49.86%)
no 21371 (50.14%)
42621 total responses since August 15, 2003



I do admit, though, I felt particularly slutty when I wrote that piece.

Back to drawing board, Koppel and Argamon.