Is your writing male or female - the gender genie

[stephgoth]

http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php

This tool examines writing you input and tells you if it thinks it was written by a man or a woman. It does this based on what words are used most often where there is a difference between the sexes. On the results page it shows you which words were most typically male, and which are more likely to be from a female.

Pretty fun, maybe good practice if you want to sit there and write stuff trying to fool it...

Steph

[Nicole Erin]

First try -
female score = 340
male score = 376.

I wrote basically about things I have done over the past few days, nothing interesting. Kind of sucks with my scores but at least I can learn from this.

Tried it again and got a female score that is higher.
I don't quite understand how they come up with this cause the female and male keywords are mostly conjunctions, prepositions, adverbs and pronouns.

I would have thought the keywords would be things like adjectives or specific nouns or verbs.

[linnea]

Thank you so much, Steph. I've often wondered about doing something like this.

[Violetgray]

Words: 771
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 1059
Male Score: 658

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

hehe I showed this to a friend of mine, and she was like, "Well DUH!"

[Ballerina]

I'm not exactly sure on how so few key words can determine the gender of your writing... I made the main character in my story male (albeit a romantic story), and my writing still came out to female; as well as a few of my blog posts. Quite confusing to me.

[optyks]

interesting.
Words: 880
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 1335
Male Score: 1146

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

I wrote this story for my girlfriend for an assignment of hers (yeah bad me. slap on the wrist:P ) a couple months back, and looks like it turned out feminine anyway! heh. not by much, but still interesting.

[AmandaM]

Humbug! How is "with" a female word.

[Karren H]

I'm an engineer... My writing fall's outside of any known gender norms... male or famale..

[Erica Lynne]

I am an engineer too, and I retrieved some of my writings from my personal and professional work. What I found was my personal work was almost entirely female biased and the professional was almost always male. However, I have used that trick that Dilbert does in Karren's messages and I find it works equally well on both males and females...zzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Hope]

http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php

This tool examines writing you input and tells you if it thinks it was written by a man or a woman. It does this based on what words are used most often where there is a difference between the sexes. On the results page it shows you which words were most typically male, and which are more likely to be from a female.

Pretty fun, maybe good practice if you want to sit there and write stuff trying to fool it...

Steph


I dropped a few sermons in it, including last week's in which I used the phrase "pink fog" just because I could and it made me giggle. They all came back female, and by a fair margin... I am not terribly suprised, even though this is some of my most technical and professional writing... why should it be any other way?


I'm not exactly sure on how so few key words can determine the gender of your writing...

Quite confusing to me.


Humbug! How is "with" a female word.

There are more than a few ways to put something like this together.

The first does not require any sort of theory behind it - merely making observations about what is done by various groups, and then extrapolating that information to the test sample. the way you do this is to simply take large numbers responses from known groups (so get 500 essays known to be written by girls, and 500 essays known to be written by boys) and compare them to each other to find the words and phrases and speech patterns that one group tends to use that the other group tends not to use. Then, take the "test" sample, and analyze it - looking for the patters you found previously in the control samples - and viola!

Another method is to take a theory, like the theory that women use more words, and construct more complicated sentences with them than men do, and then simply apply that theory to the test sample. Longer samples with more complicated sentence structure get tagged as being written by a girl, shorter, more simplistic sentence structure gets tagged as having been written by a guy.

Either one of those methods could explain why conjunctions and any particular simple word might get you tagged as a girl - conjunctions lead to more complexity, and ANY word could actually be used by more girls than guys. I saw the results of one of these tests once where they found that something like 90% of girls thought the word "used" was more gross than the word "moist." Why? who cares - it is just how it is, but you can bet that when I am describing something gross, and I am trying to sound like a girl, I describe it as used.

Here is another one for you to keep in mind as you maneuver through life as a girl - girls tend to double words for emphasis, as in "she had some big big boobs!" or "that was a red red lipstick!"

[Intertwined]

I'm an engineer... My writing fall's outside of any known gender norms... male or famale..

Engineer? I thought you were a hockey player... :lol:

[Ralph]

Humbug! How is "with" a female word.

Yeah, I put this in the "pseudoscience" bin along with those popular "what gender are you" personality tests. An amusing diversion, but about as scientific or meaningful as a fortune cookie.

ralph

[Cissy Chiana]

Female Score: 1458
Male Score: 779

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


this is about an extract from a modern fantasy fiction book I'm messing about writing...

[Lisa Golightly]

Oh, it says I'm female... What an absolute darling :)

[Hope]

Yeah, I put this in the "pseudoscience" bin along with those popular "what gender are you" personality tests. An amusing diversion, but about as scientific or meaningful as a fortune cookie.


I guess that depends on how you define "pseudoscience." Those of us with social science degrees (my undergraduate is in psychology) would probably disagree with you though.

[jaleecd]

The test decided that i am 100-female, 52- male.
that comes as a big supprise to me. All these years dressing in drab, I could have had silk, satin and nylon. What a shock!!

[Honey]

Although I don't think this is a definitive test, but I found about 7 posts I've made in various forums, dealing with a number of different issues. Most posts were around the 500~600 mark.

All of them gave me female as small advantage, though nothing so one sided that I could say I was a girl.

Still a bit of fun :)

[Teddie]

I've run a couple of my stories throught it, in the past and just now, and they've all come up close to:

Female Score: 31628
Male Score: 26234

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

[insearchofme]

I am shocked by my results. I took something I wrote earlier so as not to bias the results. As a former high school English teacher I though my writing would be gender neutral. Imagine my surprise with these results:

Female Score: 1013
Male Score: 595

Makes me think, is proper use of the English language a femine trait?

[Sammy777]

Well I copy / pasted a bunch of my posts from here as well as my stuff from my myspace page & it came back with this:

Words: 6521 - Female Score: 10396 - Male Score: 8710

[Total Score: 19106 54.4% Female - 45.6% Male]

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

Funny side note:
I ran two of my GG friend's myspace pages in it.
The Tomboyish girl scored: 52% Female
The Girly girl scored: 64% Female

[Lesley Ann]

Well for what it is worth here's my score:
Female Score 325
Male Score 159
The Gender Genie thinks I am Female.

I am so glad, because I often write letters signing myself.....
Lesley Ann.:love:

[Sarah...]

Yep. It thinks I'm female too. It's very good then! Heehee...

Still trying to get it to say male. No luck yet but I will persist :) It will be fallible - it's an algorithm afterall.

Sarah...

[JoAnne Wheeler]

I didn't take the test, but I do a lot of writing and I could slant my writing

toward either male or female

JoAnne Wheeler

[Sarasometimes]

741 female 423 male.
Now granted I wrote about a young lady getting ready for her homecomming so I skewed the results but I will take it.

[Tasha T]

I picked out a piece of fiction I wrote last month that I thought for sure would be masculine.

My score?
Female - 1465
Male - 916

The gender genie thinks the author of this passage is: female

It seems that all the gender tests and brain sex tests I take I come out as distinctly female. It really makes me wonder.

[2b.Lauren]

I guess that depends on how you define "pseudoscience." Those of us with social science degrees (my undergraduate is in psychology) would probably disagree with you though.

I am one of those social scientist. I have a BS in Psychology and an MS in Counseling. Obviously, there are ways to fool the test, as is the case for many of those that are posted on here from time to time. It is easy to read the question and come up with some type of inference on what they are looking for. If it is a forced choice type questionaire then by just reading the selections A-E you can come up with the answer that is most appropriate for the outcome that you might be seeking. This test is a little different because you have choices of either writing an entry and then submitting it, submitting documents that you have previously written, or maybe a combination of the two. That is what I did for my entry. I copied several letters that I had written recently to my wife, documents and communications that I had written for work, letters, and some of my posts here in this forum.

I think that with this test and many of the others you must look at it as just plain fun, and whatever the outcome, it probably does not influence a great deal one way or the other. It is not that earth shattering to know what type of panty your are, what type of sock you are, so on and so on. It is kind of a neat way to just have some fun and see how you rate.

So my results are, and we social scientist are great bags of wind! HA HA HA
Words: 2585
Female Score: 4462
Male Score: 3625
The gender genie thinks the author of this passage is: female

It was fun. Curiously, I think I will ask my wife to write something into it and see what it says about her.

[dilane]

I gave it an article one of my out and abouts. It just *has* to be valid:

Words: 1117
Female Score: 1814
Male Score: 1250

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

[sandra-leigh]

Recent posting of mine about my first individual therapy session: notably female

Technical document I wrote up yesterday about the internal working of a computer program: about 3:2 male (approximate ratio)

Posting I wrote not so long ago about breast size choice: about 5:3 male.

Initial largeish post of my thread about whether I'm CD or androgynous: about 3:2 male.


I would have expected the post about breast size to come out more female.


So, unlike most of you, my random writings tend to come out on the male side.

[Carole Cross]

First attempt

Female Score: 426
Male Score: 393

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

[MissConstrued]

Makes me think, is proper use of the English language a femine trait?


I'm going to go with an emphatic "NO" on that one. What's a "femine" trait, anyway? :D Grammatical incompetency seems to strike both sexes. The real difference reveals itself in style -- male writing tends toward the logical and expository, while female expression leans toward feeling. Shock, right?

So... I fed a few of my blog entries into this piece of pseudo-scientific rubbish, and -- surprise! -- it told me what I have pretty much known my entire life:

Words: 1819
Female Score: 2589
Male Score: 3267

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

[trisha59]

I posted a clip from a story I'v helped write in the writers section of this forum. this was my score.
Female Score: 161
Male Score: 57

[carolinoakland]

You know that's an interesting topic in that since I went full time I've noticed that while my last name has stayed the same, how i write it HAS. I do write diferently as a girl than boi. huh. go figure. Carol

[natasha]

Interesting.

[Amalia]

hmm this was pretty interesting i posted the first two pages of a Sci-fi short story i'm writing.... this was my score

Female Score: 1794
Male Score: 1661


i didn't expect that, but when looking at the words they used to flag if it was male or female i realised that the male words were much more direct and specific types of words. One of the major differences between how men and women speak is that women, in general, tend to be way more indirect than men.

it's sorta like that Jeff Foxworthy joke from ages ago when his wife said it's a little hot in the room and he jumped up and opened the window. (just an example of a more extreme version of this). But i think that is what this is doing.

I'm a Language Nerd btw.... langauge, linguistics, culture's involvment in language is my thing lol.

[stephgoth]

I decided to take a story I wrote last april about breaking up with my ex and feed it through the genie. That was before I started thinking about my gender issues so I wouldn't have skewed it subliminally or anything.

Words: 3399
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 4587
Male Score: 4505

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

It was just about split down the middle, oddly enough.

Steph