Do you write like a man or a woman?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

I found this gender test tool in an article about Judith Miller, to be used to test the hypothesis that she may not have been the author of some of her NYT articles.

I just took it and I write like a man. AAHH..

You may have seen this before, but for those who have not...

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

[henslee]

1. I am a lefty. I write like a six year old boy.

[marbuc]

19. Me too

At least we have an excuse for poor penmanship!

[Deja Q]

2. I write like a woman!

Words: 318
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 700
Male Score: 527

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




So it's no wonder I like men! :rofl:

[annabanana]

7. let's paste some of our essayists in.. just for fun

Plaid Adder:

Female Score: 631
Male Score: 1290

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

[annabanana]

8. Bob Boudelang

Female Score: 1009
Male Score: 867

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

[annabanana]

12. Auntie Pinko

Female Score: 657
Male Score: 2343

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

[Paulie]

10. Oh dear!

Words: 56
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 117
Male Score: 71
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

Doh!

[iamjoy]

3. Good Link

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. I write like a woman. That was fun! Thanks! :)

[graywarrior]

5. Write like a guy.

[meganmonkey]

6. I call foul!

:P

I used a long story I wrote about a personal experience. I entered a few paragraphs and I was waaay on the male side, then I started over and entered a few different paragraphs and was waaay on the female side. It was a story I wrote in one long sitting, so I dunno about this....

:shrug:

[iamjoy]

35. Yeah, Mixed Results

It is pretty cool, 'cos I am trying to write a novel and I pasted in different excerpts of it. It gave me different responses, which could be reflective of the duration of time over which I am writing it. The encouraging this was, most of the female viewpoint sections it said were female, most of the male it said were male.

[AlCzervik]

9. 581--like a man

[seabeyond]

11. guessed male. i am female. that is funny

i typed how many read my posts and assume i am male though to me my name is feminine.

[elehhhhna]

16. I KNOW you're a female. Mentioning the husband is always a tipoff.

lol

I'm sure I write like man, although I am not one.

[seabeyond]

17. that was funny, i went on and posted again. a much longer piece

and overwhelmingly placed me in male. i know, talking hubby and children, and the experience with them in political does give me away.

[I Have A Dream]

34. In reference to assuming the sex of a person based upon the...

use of "husband" or "wife", some homosexual people use that term to describe their significant other, which may now actually legally be their "husband" or "wife".

[elehhhhna]

42. Uh, seabe's husband is clearly a man, and she's a mom, so...

i'm thinking they're a straight couple.

[I Have A Dream]

43. I was responding to the following statement...

Mentioning the husband is always a tipoff."

I was surprised how upset one person got in a post after someone assumed his/her sex (can't remember which) based upon the person saying either husband or wife. (I think that it was a woman saying "wife".) Luckily, I wasn't the person who made the assumption (because the person rebuked the poster), but I very easily might have been. My frame of reference changed because of that post. That's all that I meant by my post.

[elehhhhna]

51. I know. I was goofing with seabe.

no worries!

[JuniperLea]

13. I write like a man

But I've been mistaken as a man before due to my writing.

[Solly Mack]

14. I submitted 2 different essays - both came back "male"

wrong both times.

[Straight Shooter]

77. They probably know about your banana.

[Solly Mack]

78. LMAO!

oops...

[mrfrapp]

15. Interesting.

I tried two different pieces. The first was the body of a letter detailing my work experience and education intended to be read by prospective employers. The second was the opening paragraphs of a computer science paper.

The letter registered as female and the paper as male. At first glance, I would say that it's not particularly accurate.

[chalky]

18. Apparently I swing both ways, ifyaknowudimean *snarf*

:D

[tenshi816]

20. Apparently I write like a man too,

but I'm definitely female.

"Words: 675

Female Score: 1185
Male Score: 1795

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

Hmm. Very interesting. What conclusion did the article you mentioned reach about Judy Miller?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

26. It didn't say. The author had access to achived documents of

Miller's. The poster was merely suggesting that the author run them through the genie. Didn't see a response from the OP.

I was just glancing through the algorthym on this. It has to do with use of pronouns.

I don't think that it is meant to be used as detecting one's sex, but in categorizing style. I would think that all of us write differently depending on what we were writing.

But, you would think that Judy's writing style for her articles wouldn't change -- whether she has a masculine writing style or a feminine.

[highplainsdem]

21. The Gender Genie got my gender wrong, too.

[nonconformist]

22. I write like a man!

Female Score: 482
Male Score: 1464

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

I'm not male, btw.

[tularetom]

23. A fun site- but I'm not sure how accurate it is

I submitted 3 0r 4 of my posts and in my case the test worked - all posts were detemined to be male and I am male. I looked at how they score the thing and I saw that I got a bazillion points for the use of the word "the". Well male, female or neuter how the fuck can you write anyhting without using "the"?

(This post - words 63
female score - 42
male score - 144)

[Laura PourMeADrink]

30. you are funny ! Read the attachment on the algorithm for the

test. It explains. I think this is more an indication of writing style, not as a determinant of your sex. As for Judy, you would think that all her articles should be the same (all male style or all female style). If you notice an obvious pattern of change -- who knows - maybe Scooter wrote them for her.

[Grateful for Hope]

24. Like a man

female score 0
male score 161

I am female.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

31. 0 Female? Yikes. What did you write about? Nascar and Strip Clubs? ha ha

[Grateful for Hope]

69. No, I wrote about The * administration

corruption, arrogance, and going down!

[progressivebydesign]

25. I'm almost gender neutral!!!

177 female, 174 male. (I'm a female). I pasted a paragraph from an article about design that I penned for my website. Good to know that in biz I'm gender neutral. Typical Libra, balanced...

[CoffeeCat]

27. This is pretty cool...

I typed in a press release I wrote with DARPA, and I rec'd this score:
Male 611
Female 469

One of my DU posts was scored:
Male:869
Female: 630

Interesante....

[Eric J in MN]

28. It said I write like a man (nt)

nt

[1monster]

29. Methinks that this gender test tool has gender bias

I put half of this paper in first and came up with a female rating. After putting in the full paper, I came up male. The half I put in first, had to do with religion's effect on women's emancipation. The whole paper had to do with multicultural education.

BTW, I am female.

Words: 1783

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

Female Score: 1690
Male Score: 2053

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

[SmokingJacket]

32. I tried five large samples from five different people.

It got three of them right, two of them wrong.

I would say it's a fairly useless tool.

[iamjoy]

36. It May Be Useless

I mean, it is fun, but it correctly assesses the gender a little over 50% of the time. Statistically speaking, this is little better than guessing.

[SmokingJacket]

67. I could be wrong, but I think my stats are better... nt

[CoffeeCat]

33. Lynn Cheney's "Sisters" and other writings....

Gettysburg Address:
Female Score: 199
Male Score: 443


Lyrics to Back in Black by AC/DC
Female Score: 244
Male Score: 157

Passage from Lynn Cheney's "Sisters"
Female Score: 458
Male Score: 247

Portion of Rush Limbaugh's radio program (Transcript from last week)
Female Score: 1075
Male Score: 1243

[WritingIsMyReligion]

37. I write like a human being.

I think it's rather sexist to label writers as having a style like that of a man or that of a woman.

[Citizen Jane]

38. I am "one butch chick"

According to the response when I reported that, no, my text was written by a woman, not a man. I'll have to inform my husband and see what he thinks...

[spuddonna]

40. lol I just took one of my entires here and it said the same...

'I'm a MAN, baby!"

I think my hubby will be shocked... :D
Think I'll try some other entires...

[Marr]

39. I don't just write like a man- I write like a HE-MAN!

Female Score: 72
Male Score: 376

I expect you can smell my pheromones through the screen.

[Jed Dilligan]

41. I, for one, am gloating

I fed in my current work, an academic article, and it blew the top off the "male" charts. (The scientists in peer review will no doubt be subconsciously impressed.) The fantasy novel I'm writing was close to the cusp, but still male. Then I fed in a passage of my literary novel that's supposed to be written by a woman, and I fooled the algorithm!

I don't think anything that's ever happened has given me more confidence as a writer. Thanks for posting this.


(Edit for typo. I'm not so great after all.)

[gollygee]

44. 289 each way - gender unknown

LOL

[gollygee]

46. I submitted something longer

it thought I was male. But only 1200 to 950 toward male.

[Blue_In_AK]

45. I'm neutral, but leaning toward male...

Female Score: 192
Male Score: 229

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

Wrong again, Gender Genie...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

47. I tried it with a short story I submitted to a horror magazine

It was very, very close (3746 female, 3752 male), but also correct: male.

[KenCarson]

48. Ms Swan say "heeeee wriiiitta likeeeeaaaa mannnnn"

...

[Neil Lisst]

49. Let me adjust my balls, and I'll tell you.

I think says it all.

[ComerPerro]

52. If you have to adjust your balls before providing a writing sample

I think you have bigger issues that you need to sort out rather than just whether you write like a male or female.

LOL

[Fountain79]

50. I write like a male...

As far as handwriting goes....I am all male.

[Horse with no Name]

53. I submitted an essay I wrote

Words: 930
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 481
Male Score: 2464

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

I also submitted several blog posts and they all came back male.

[Ksec]

54. I write like Im an ignorant hilljack

I already knew that so Ha !

I didnt take it because I didnt have a 500 word essay to submit.

[sakabatou]

55. I write like a guy.

[Warren DeMontague]

56. Male. Must be 'cuz my prehensile penis ghost writes my blog sometimes

Female Score: 1458
Male Score: 1665

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

2nd Sample:

Female Score: 2423
Male Score: 3857

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

[hyphenate]

57. Eh!

Tried it with three different texts, and they all said it was a man. I suppose on one level I should be pleased that it thought so, but in reality, I think it smacks of chauvinism.

[Lorien]

58. 447 like a man, 97 like a woman

I don't know what to make of that. :shrug:

[McCamy Taylor]

59. I write fiction. This thing works. Third person gives gender neutral

narrator (male=female) ("Urizen"). Story with a 1st person female narrator gave strongly female narrator ("My Intended"). Story with 1st person male narrator gave strongly male narrator ("Sister Death").

The last two stories have strongly typical gender type narrators which is why I chose them for the test. Another short story, "Walker" 1st person, gender left unspecified, gives an ambiguous result in the gender reader.

Here is a link for my archive page at Aphelion.com in case anyone wants to test.

http://www2.aphelion-webzine.com/authors/TaylorMcCamy.html

[Laura PourMeADrink]

60. thanks MT !!!

[Danmel]

61. It says I'm one butch chick!

I'm not a girlie girl but I'm not exactly butch.

[AgadorSparticus]

68. that's what I got too: a butch chick. lol 849 male 437 female.

i think this thing is just a tiny bit off...

[Dem Agog]

62. Well holy crap I write like a man!

I'm a lefty and a woman and I review products online for beer money... I took out the one reference to my being a woman in an 825 word review and this was the result:

Words: 825
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 1204
Male Score: 1250

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

Edited to add, well crikey! Now it's insulting me! :grin:

That is one butch chick.

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

[LWolf]

63. I supposedly write "like a man."

:eyes:

[Adelante]

64. Ooh, surprised

Female Score: 0
Male Score: 89

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

It said I'm a butch chick.

[Adelante]

65. Okay, I did it again with over 500 words

It still says I'm male and a butch chick.

Female Score: 623
Male Score: 833

[tanyev]

66. Fascinating.

Female Score: 375
Male Score: 1007

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

Lots of times people who reply to me assume I'm a male and I always figured it was because my DU name is so vague. Maybe my writing style also misleads them.

[neebob]

70. Same here

Words: 673
Female Score: 1012
Male Score: 1532

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

You're even more maler than I am.

[neebob]

72. Hmm, my gender appears to depend on the subject matter

I tried this on a blog entry of similar length from the same blog as the other one and got similar results: 9XX female, 12XX male. Then I ran it on a 4,800-word chapter from my book where I talk about myself, and the genie correctly guessed I'm female. It could also have to do with the length of the passage, since the book chapter is eight times as long as the blog entries.

Okay, so then I tried it on a 4,900-word white paper that I wrote professionally, describing a process. Female Score: 4998, Male Score: 7333.

I think the genie's as mixed up as I am.

[Gelliebeans]

71. I write like a woman

[helderheid]

73. I tricked it

Words: 111

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

Female Score: 126
Male Score: 175

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





Am I right? The author of this passage is actually: female

[Clark2008]

74. I write like a reporter - which is how I was trained

but the Genie thought I was a guy.

Nopie - I don't trust this to determine Judy Miller's writing style because reporters are trained to write a certain way: inverted pyramid and without splitting the verb (example: "I certainly am going" versus "I am certainly going").

It's a fun little exercise, but it doesn't prove much when nearly every reporter since 1930 has been trained to write in AP style.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

75. It says I write like a man.

Female Score: 366
Male Score: 890

But I'm not.

[Straight Shooter]

76. Dayum! That's funny, I write like a female.

But a lot of people on DU mistake me for a male. Must be my moniker :D

Oh, well, I was writing a story about a woman, and so I inserted a lot of feminine key words, I suppose. Maybe it would have been different if I'd written a long diatribe against Little Boots.

Thanks for sharing this :thumbsup: