This is kinda cool.

http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php

It's a thingy that guesses your gender based on your word usage. I stuck in one of my blog posts and it came out with :

Genre: Informal
Female = 1175
Male = 623
Difference = -552; 34.64%
Verdict: FEMALE

Better than ZERO on that other test ^_^ With 'formal' it was neutral.

Interesting test.

I submitted a report on an article when I was 18. My results are:

Genre: Formal
Female = 927
Male = 867
Difference = -60; 48.32%
Verdict: Weak FEMALE

Weak emphasis could indicate European.

Here's a letter I wrote when I was 18:

Genre: Informal
Female = 638
Male = 1145
Difference = 507; 64.21%
Verdict: MALE

A report I wrote for college in my mid-20s:

Genre: Formal
Female = 859
Male = 1972
Difference = 1113; 69.65%
Verdict: MALE

Some diary entries I wrote in my mid-20s:

Genre: Informal
Female = 1254
Male = 3396
Difference = 2142; 73.03%
Verdict: MALE

I also ran a few tests on my posts on BN and came up with mixed results.

Total words: 421

Genre: Informal
Female = 1017
Male = 349
Difference = 668; 74.46%
Verdict: FEMALE

Genre: Formal
Female = 532
Male = 1120
Difference = 588; 67.79%
Verdict: MALE


Actually.... that sounds very accurate.

Genre: Informal
Female = 1060
Male = 544
Difference = -516; 33.91%
Verdict: FEMALE

Genre: Formal
Female = 369
Male = 584
Difference = 215; 61.28%
Verdict: MALE

As an experienced writer I'm too good at gaming these. If I were to dump a writing sample from one of my stories in, it'll give me the gender of my narrator, which usually isn't me. If I dump a writing sample from my Facebook though it usually rates me as female, but barely. Probably because I have an extremely large vocabulary and am not shy about using all of it, regardless how my word choice might be interpreted gender-wise. Makes me difficult to gender in conversation based on word choice alone, but it does tend to make me come across as "stuffy" or "stuck-up" even though I'm really not.

Email to friends for informal, story I've been writing for formal.

Genre: Informal
Female = 482
Male = 1054
Difference = 572; 68.61%
Verdict: MALE

Genre: Formal
Female = 771
Male = 1048
Difference = 277; 57.61%
Verdict: Weak MALE

Weak emphasis could indicate European.

My journal:

Genre: Informal
Female = 4587
Male = 4235
Difference = -352; 48%
Verdict: Weak FEMALE

Weak emphasis could indicate European.

A story I wrote:

Genre: Informal
Female = 21106
Male = 33006
Difference = 11900; 60.99%
Verdict: MALE

A stage play I wrote: (I've included both since I'm not sure if that counts as formal or informal)

Genre: Informal
Female = 36487
Male = 32849
Difference = -3638; 47.37%
Verdict: Weak FEMALE

Weak emphasis could indicate European.

Genre: Formal
Female = 20037
Male = 26070
Difference = 6033; 56.54%
Verdict: Weak MALE

Weak emphasis could indicate European.

Oh, and I suppose I should include that yes, my ancestry is European.

Interesting.

Genre: Informal
Female = 713
Male = 507
Difference = -206; 41.55%
Verdict: Weak FEMALE

Weak emphasis could indicate European.

Genre: Formal
Female = 529
Male = 254
Difference = -275; 32.43%
Verdict: FEMALE


- JJ

See attached image. Nuff said...

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I just used a email I sent tonight. in the left box here is what the results were.

Genre: Informal
Female = 579
Male = 344
Difference = - 235; 37.26%
Verdict: FEMALE