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Sunday, September 21, 2003
 | Gender Genie
Also found on another blog, a link to the Gender Genie. Go to this site. Paste in 500 words or more that you have written, and the gender genie will guess your gender. It has roughly 85% accuracy. http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html I fooled it twice. It reads my fiction as written from a male. It also reads my non-fiction as written from a male. But it reads my blogger entries as female. Good. Doctor Who stories have been overwhelmingly written by male writers rather than female, and I'm sure that participating in that tiny genre has affected my writing. I'm sure the gender genie is gender biased itself to view male writing as tighter and less expansive than female writing. I want both my fiction and non-fiction to be trim, efficient, and direct. Their goal is to reach a lot of people. This blog, on the other hand, is simply me. |
