Thanks to Max Barry, I was today directed to the Gender Genie, where you can find out if a bot thinks you are a girl or a boy, based on the drivel you've already written.
Although why "the" is a masculine word, I couldn't tell you.
Interestingly enough, out of three blog posts of mine that I pasted in there, the genie only got me with the correct gender once. I guess I'm one of the guys after all.
Although the baby may have other impressions...
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Hm. The subject of the submission certainly affects the outcome. For example, I put in a large piece of fiction written in the first person about a female protagonist, which was loaded with "her" and "she," and it decided I was female. My blog posts it pegged correctly. Interesting algorithm, but probably needs work.
I don't know why this comment reads so very much like BK wrote it, but the tree don't fall far from the apple, I guess.
Nearly every one of my blog posts registers as male. I tried a lot more of them last night.
I wrote a short block of fiction, trying in the first case to write as a male character and the second case to write as a female character. I expected either both of them to be male (like my blog style, I suppose) or for them to be accurately gendered.
What happened was odd. They were both female! The male and female scores for the "male" character were close (both scored around 1200, within 100 points of each other). The female score on the "female" character blew the male score for that block away. The female score was in the 2000's, and the male score was around 1100.
Makes me want to try it again...
In a non-surprising turn of events, I was pegged as male every single time except for my LJ entry about buying the new car.
Do you think it could secretly see me sitting in my pale blue and green decorated office? Do you think it knows I am wearing a little apple green cable knit sweater and a pleated khaki skirt and green and blue flip flops?
Was I always this girly? I shudder to think.
I meant female, not male, of course. FEMALE. I am so a female.
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