Someone posted a link, in a blog, to a site that uses some kind of algorithm to determine if a story is written by a man or a woman. I've lost the link. Can someone provide it?
Thanks,
Teddie
Written by a man or a woman?
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Are you thinking of the
Are you thinking of the Gender Genie?
Fun "toy"
Tools like this are fun.
Is it just me
or has anyone else run their own stuff through it?
Yeah, I gave it a go
with some of one of my stories. I got the required answer, I was female but then my birth certificate says that anyway.
The Guardian did a short on it, suggesting it was too superficial to prove anything, and besides, language wasn't gender specific. Just saying, Cute or Gorgeous all the time doesn't make you a woman, it just makes you sound like Simon Bates.
hugs,
Angharad
Angharad
it's a fair cop guvnor
It got me bang to rights on 4 from 5 pieces I put through it, but they were all near fifty fifty splits... reading the attached bits I'd have been marked male for writing in the third person, but female for my rambling sentences :)
Interestingly the story that came back 'female' was the most popular of those I've posted here.
Interesting Results
I put in samples from one of my stories (with a female lead character) and every one came back female, while samples from another (with a male lead character) all came back male. The results were usually in the 60/40 range, so what does that mean?
Never let it be said that I don't enjoy the occasional delusion of grandeur
Never let it be said that I don't enjoy the occasional delusion of grandeur
it means
It means, that you are a GREAT character writer. that you delve into your characters beings, when you write, that you know them intimately heart, mind and soul.
I haven't tried this out yet..... I suppose I will find out just what kind of writer I am...... maybe on second thought, I will just stay in my comfortable unknowing abyss. :)
A.A.
Just happend to do it last night
&
most of my stories came out female, most barely
most of my essays came out male, again, most barely
Those stories are only the ones I finished and didn't have the coauthor do most of the work.
shalimar
Yep. That's it.
Yep. That's it. Thanks.
Teddie
Gender
It was fun. It also accurately reflected intended point of view in several selections and I think I'll use it for some trickier story parts.
Thanks,
Michelle
Heh
Lol with the gender genie the chapters of my story 'A Walk in the Mist' came up like this.
Chapter 1 - Male
Chapter 2 - Female
Chapter 3 - Female
The funny bit being that in Chapter 1 the main character is a guy and in Chapter 2 onwards he has been turned into a girl. Weird or what :)
Mixed Results
After running some of my stuff thru Gender Genie, I've gotten very middling results. The Genie thinks I'm androgynous, and that's my take on me, too. hugs, Daphne
Daphne
Shoes and The Gender Genie
I decided to try running my story, Shoes, through the Gender Genie. I was expecting it to come out saying male, since it was being told from a male perspective, but it came out female by a fair margin. I then tried selecting little bits from the story. When I entered parts spoken by the older brother, it came out male, while parts spoken by his sister came out female. I only tried a couple of excerpts, so I might have gotten something different if I kept on experimenting. Just the same, it was kinda interesting. :)
Writer--Artist--Dreamer
Gender Genie revisited
After seeing this older blog question I went and visited Gender Genie at the link provided in the first comment, interesting, and it showed me that I might rethink some of the words I use in my stories. I intend to go back and rerun a story than paste out the list of female and male words that are used to value rate the selection and see if there use will improve the selection.