April 20, 2007

Dudely

My writing is, evidently.

I entered several samples from the music, politics, and other tags, and every last one scored male. Try it yourself.

HT

Posted by binky at April 20, 2007 10:46 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Blogorama


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i just processed an 800-word passage from a recent, in my view fairly representative post, and came in Female Score, 819, Male Score, 972.

i'll have to plug in some of my recent efforts at long fiction and see how they measure up -- when i'm affecting a voice that's not entirely my own. (yet another way to second guess my writing; lovely.)

what were your differentials like?

Posted by: moon at April 20, 2007 10:57 AM | PERMALINK

Generally about 2/3 male 1/3 female. It could be the poli sci training, given certain diciplinary demographics and how one must pitch one's writing in order to break into the ranks.

Posted by: binky at April 20, 2007 01:04 PM | PERMALINK

yeah i wouldn't even bother to plug in my professional writing, because i already know that any measure worth its salt would rate me overwhelmingly masculine in that context.

Posted by: moon at April 20, 2007 01:27 PM | PERMALINK

I just tried one of my professional pieces and it came out 1100ish female to 900ish male. Huh.

Posted by: jacflash at April 20, 2007 04:30 PM | PERMALINK

after saying i wouldn't do it, i did, and i came up male by a relatively thin margin, 400/300, something like that.

Posted by: moon at April 21, 2007 10:35 AM | PERMALINK

I finally did this - Male 1080/Female 1000. From looking at the basis of the scoring, I can't say I'm overly impressed by the methodology. They are definitely getting at different types - but calling those male and female obscures the sorts of differences they are picking up on. Though if the only purpose is to guess gender, I guess that's not that big a deal.

Posted by: Armand at April 28, 2007 10:21 AM | PERMALINK
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