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…
November 18, 2008
Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis?
Posted by Catherine under eh?, neuroses, writing[15] Comments
November 18, 2008 at 12:40 pm
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.
November 18, 2008 at 12:47 pm
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.
November 18, 2008 at 2:37 pm
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.
November 18, 2008 at 3:01 pm
It says I’m gender neutral, only 52% woman. Please don’t tell my husband
November 18, 2008 at 3:37 pm
also gender neutral – 53% woman – mind you, the second most common reason people land on my blog is by searching ‘leaking breasts’…
November 18, 2008 at 5:05 pm
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.
November 18, 2008 at 5:41 pm
like tina and conortje i’m gender neutral, but they guess I’m a woman…55%
November 18, 2008 at 8:21 pm
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!
November 18, 2008 at 9:03 pm
57% female, fairly gender neutral. And I often wonder about a post-apocolyptic world but couldn’t choose between broccoli and carrots.
November 19, 2008 at 10:52 am
74% manly. Yarr!
November 19, 2008 at 11:19 am
72% female?!!!!!! It makes me want to weep!
November 19, 2008 at 1:33 pm
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.
November 20, 2008 at 11:58 am
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.
November 22, 2008 at 4:10 pm
68%. I’m now trying to locate my inner 32%. Maybe if I rent out the Sex And The City film…
November 23, 2008 at 1:03 am
I’m over 70% female! I’m not sure how I feel about that…