The Gender Genie or You Are What You Write. But is "it" right??

**KewTnCurvy GG** · 12-23-2004, 03:56 AM

Okay kids, I found this really cool thingy. You type text into it and it predicts the author's gender. And, statistics show it being correct more than 80% of the time. In fact I typed text in from GG's and GB's from both sides of our little fence and it was right most of the time. With a couple of exceptions (if you don't find out who you are by using it; I'll be happy to tell you). It also found me to be male twice and I was an "Unknown" gender once. He he he. It's really cool and I want to read more about it. As an interesting lil' test I'm going to plug what I've written here to see what it says about me gender once more. Try it and share what you think. This is fun and interesting I think!

The Gender Genie:

http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html

Hugs
Kew

Drum roll please! And the results of this posty are:

Words: 152
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 162
Male Score: 257

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

**KewTnCurvy GG** · 12-23-2004, 04:03 AM

I plugged in a work of fiction I'm doing on gender blurring. The results of The Gender Genie:

Words: 137
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 91
Male Score: 314

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

Uh oh! I see a pattern here. But I don't like snakes, snails or puppy dog tails!!

hugs
kew

**racquel** · 12-23-2004, 04:51 AM

I tried the test using a piece of fiction i made up as i went along,392 words,score female384/male550.oh well.(damn) :mad:

Tristen Cox · 12-23-2004, 04:58 AM

hmmmmm well I think I like the results here it says:

Words: 360
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 641
Male Score: 310

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

*blushes*

Tristen Cox · 12-23-2004, 05:03 AM

And the second set of results:

Words: 270
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 335
Male Score: 201

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

Sweeet!

**KewTnCurvy GG** · 12-23-2004, 05:13 AM

Sweety? You were one of the two of whom I was referring

He he he or her her her!

hugs
kew

Julie · 12-23-2004, 06:15 AM

Typed up a quick blog of about 120 words off my head and got the result:- F168---M150, phew........

JJ

**Celeste GG** · 12-23-2004, 07:44 AM

OMG I really Am a crossdresser and don't know it. Maybe I am so good at it I have convinced myself I am a GG

Female score 208
Male score 230

**Georgette** · 12-23-2004, 08:55 AM

Just a short sentence but scored Female 17 , male 8 better than I expected.

**DonnaT** · 12-23-2004, 01:28 PM

One of my fiction stories:
Words: 1577

Female Score: 2141
Male Score: 1471

Another:
Words: 2903

Female Score: 3585
Male Score: 3246

**JAYNETHOMPSON** · 12-23-2004, 03:10 PM

I wrote a peice about our day at the stables.

Words: 354
Female Score: 293
Male Score: 625

:mad:

**JAYNETHOMPSON** · 12-23-2004, 03:20 PM

Words: 655
Female Score: 558
Male Score: 581

Words: 2945
Female Score: 4165
Male Score: 4408

Both items where written BY A MIDWIFE about delivering babies

Does this mean I'm more of a woman than my wife

**DonnaT** · 12-23-2004, 05:41 PM

Does this mean I'm more of a woman than my wife

Nope (sorry

), her scores were closer together than yours. Plus hers were in a medical field dominated by male terminology.

**Gina V.** · 12-23-2004, 06:12 PM

Well thats really interesting, I've submitted a short fictional story and I've got a 59 to 37 score that thinks I'm female, Yippee.

**MonaSmith** · 12-23-2004, 06:25 PM

I wrote a few lines about how I was feeling at the moment and about my hopes for the future. I got:

Female Score: 132
Male Score: 25

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

Thank you Gender Genie. Does this mean I get 3 wishes now?

**Fiona K** · 12-24-2004, 10:26 AM

Whew!
I tried some of my longer winded posts from the forum (sorry girls!) and a couple of company press releases I have just completed for a trade show in January and hit female each time! I wasn't too surprised about the posts but a bloody press release on technology?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Oh well, is it right Kew?
Dunno.....

Love to all
Fiona

**Sophie Yeats** · 12-24-2004, 02:41 PM

Hmm.. My private LJ where I discuss Sophie and all of the other things I can't normally talk about:
Words: 962
Female Score: 2568
Male Score: 1554

My 'normal LJ' entry :

Words: 823

Female Score: 1288
Male Score: 1982

Hmmm
- Sophie

**Marlene4a** · 12-25-2004, 05:32 AM

Five times: All female.

**Chrissycd** · 12-29-2004, 04:02 PM

That was interesting for me because I was educated to be a writer, but never seriously pursued it, plus there's that whole cd, tg thing that rules my life, too. I wrote about 300 words, checked the results (female), and then I backed up, added enough to make the 500 words suggested, checked, and still came up female. My only surprise was that my score wasn't more lopsided favoring the female gender...
Chrissy

**Julie York** · 12-29-2004, 05:38 PM

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

Nice but I was trying on purpose. I wrote a romantic fiction piece.

**Kassandra** · 01-04-2005, 01:01 AM

This actually was the second pass at the Genie. The first one I type a stream of concience thing about me (Tris) when I was twelve years old and an accident I had with my bike. All complete fiction, but I told it from my feminine point of view. The genie pegged me as a female on that one too.

This one was an email I sent to a friend also from my female point of view. And again the genie was convinced I was a girl. God, that feels good!

I think the program is looking for keywords and phrases that define passive versus active voice (tech writer talk). I think the program assumes that if the author is writting in passive voice then, since many females speak passively, then the author must be female.

BTW: Since the genie was convinced I was a girl, I didn't have the heart to disappoint him and idicated that the author was indeed a female. Well, I am!

Words: 865

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

Female Score: 905
Male Score: 872

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

**Sharon** · 01-04-2005, 01:42 AM

I don't get it. I submitted two stories and I came up female both times, even though the second story was overloaded with violence, vulgarity, and incomplete sentences. The program chose as its keywords mainly prepositions. It doesn't make sense.

**KewTnCurvy GG** · 01-04-2005, 01:45 AM

Well it's based on an algorithm that attempts to predict the gender based on syntax structure. Content is not a factor.

hugs
kew

**CD WANNAB** · 01-10-2005, 05:41 AM

Luv that site
I wrote down how I feel in 18 words
Female 25
Male 6

Yaaah!

Nancy

**nicki** · 01-11-2005, 03:17 AM

female 252
male 87
yesssssssss

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