Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis?

2008 November 18
by Catherine

So, this thing thinks I’m 57% male. Now, I know I’m not a girly girl. I’ve never owned more than one bottle of perfume at a time, I’d rather Converse to Choos, I’ve never read anything by Cecelia Ahern, and most days I struggle to look even remotely “put together”. I always figured my writing style was girlish, though, but what with all this recent blogging about driving and indie music and snot, I guess the internet begs to differ…

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  1. 2008 November 18

    66% man. Awwwww yeah.

    How (I suspect) this works: it gathers some arbitrary data points, e.g. number of adjectives, use of active/passive voice etc, gives an answer and then asks if that answer is correct. The answer will be a complete guess the first time the algorithm is run, but each result will go into a databse and over time it”ll become more and more accurate (assuming there is an actual correlation between gender and the data gathered).

    I love stuff like this. I did a gender test quiz once that asked a bunch of irrelevant questions like “Do you think it would be kind of cool to live in a post-apocalyptic world?” or “Do you prefer broccoli to carrots?” – enough people did the quiz that it ended up nearly 100% accurate.

  2. 2008 November 18

    Believe it or not, it ranked my LJ, where I spent the last year chronicling a pregnancy, childbirth and childrearing, as 98% male. So… naaaah.

  3. 2008 November 18

    Eli – amusingly, I’ve now dropped to 50% after this post. And I prefer broccoli.

    Assentia – I hope you gave it a ticking off for that blunder.

  4. 2008 November 18

    It says I’m gender neutral, only 52% woman. Please don’t tell my husband :)

  5. 2008 November 18

    also gender neutral – 53% woman – mind you, the second most common reason people land on my blog is by searching ‘leaking breasts’…

  6. 2008 November 18

    72 per cent male result. I’m kinda like Ernest Hemmingway drinking a Mojito (without the writing talent). I feel like hunting something large yet easy to panfry.

  7. 2008 November 18

    like tina and conortje i’m gender neutral, but they guess I’m a woman…55%

  8. 2008 November 18

    Why be neutral when you all get to be blogging hermaphrodites instead? Its twice the fun!

    78% male, by the way, and blaming my mother for those dainty ankles and that graceful neck!

  9. 2008 November 18
    Jen permalink

    57% female, fairly gender neutral. And I often wonder about a post-apocolyptic world but couldn’t choose between broccoli and carrots.

  10. 2008 November 19

    74% manly. Yarr!

  11. 2008 November 19

    72% female?!!!!!! It makes me want to weep!

  12. 2008 November 19

    Conor – that would disturb me immensely!

    Adam – fillet of badger?

    I am now female, apparently. 52%. This thing is going to give me a complex.

  13. 2008 November 20

    you people are giving me a complex, what with your reasonable figures. it put me at 95%, making me think my blog must read like the Vagina Monocles.

  14. 2008 November 22

    68%. I’m now trying to locate my inner 32%. Maybe if I rent out the Sex And The City film…

  15. 2008 November 23

    I’m over 70% female! I’m not sure how I feel about that…

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