Amusing "Gender Guesser" on internet.

[Valmorian]

Get some text together and run it through: http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html

And it will try to guess if the writer is male or female.

At the end, you can tell the program whether it was right or wrong, and it shows you the total right vs. wrong. This is what I found amusing. The results show an accuracy of almost exactly %50!! *Laugh*

Talk about having your pet theory smashed on the internet!!

 

[Hawk_Watcher]

Seems that on the internet you can get info (i.e. Google) immediately, perchance then, interner gender guessers could use this to their advantage.

 

[mummymonkey]

I typed this into it.

I'm a married man with a wife and two young children.

I think you can guess the response.

 

[uneasy]

50% Very funny. I think I could come up with an algorithm that would work even faster and at least as accurate.

Get timestamp. If timestamp odd say male, else say female.

But when I used "I am a man" it got it right though.

 

[LW]

But when I used "I am a man" it got it right though.

I tried with "I'm an 28 year old man" [The 'an' is there because, of course, twenty Eight starts with 'E'.], and it classified me female.

 

[BPSCG]

I tried with "I'm an 28 year old man" [The 'an' is there because, of course, twenty Eight starts with 'E'.], and it classified me female.

I think this needs work. I typed in:

"I am man. Me hit snakes with rock. Me scratch balls. Me pick nose. Me hairy armpits. Me like burp, fart."

It said I was female, evidently because it picked up on the word "with".

This is fun!

 

[asthmatic camel]

Original: Once upon a time a little girl awoke one morning to find that her mother had inexplicably been transformed into an ant while making porridge. Fantastic, no more groundings and painful bowel movements.

Apparently I'm female, that'll come as a shock to the wife.

Regards,

AC.

 

[Chanileslie]

Well according to that site, I am a male when I submitted this:

She watched the departing forms of boy and horse until they disappeared through the double doors. Leaning heavily on the staff, she pivoted around, and found the entrance to the Inn, and pushed through the door. The warmth of the common room, and the smells of roasting meats and cooking foods assaulted her, and made her dizzy for a moment.

Unfortunately, I seem to be lacking a few of the necessary appendages, much to my husband's delight!!

 

[BTox]

Pretty silly. Any phrase not including the words "the" "a" "some" "number" or "it" is determined to be female. You can curse like a sailor and it still guesses female!

 

[BPSCG]

Pretty silly. Any phrase not including the words "the" "a" "some" "number" or "it" is determined to be female. You can curse like a sailor and it still guesses female!

Well, not quite. I typed in "The cat with 9 lives is not for you" and it came back female. But when I typed "The cat is 9 years old", it came back male.

This whole thing is so implausibly silly, and is so easily refuted, that it makes you wonder if it wasn't originally intended as some sort of joke.

 

[Keneke]

To accurately get a clear picture, you'd need to put in a large chunk of text. I would type in a sentence and it would be 50/50, however, I cut and pasted some long blocks of text that I wrote and it was 100% correct. I think they need to look at the stats of entry that are 100 words in length or longer.

PS I adore Captain Amelia, Chanileslie!

 

[efrex]

To be fair, the algorithm is meant for fictional writing, and would probably be more useful on longer chunks of text.

 

[Interesting Ian]

I put the following which I wrote in another thread and got male. In fact it was male by miles!:

The fact that states of "A" may be correlated with "particular states of "B", means neither that "A" and "B" are one and the same thing, nor does it entail that "B" originates from "A", or indeed "A" from "B". It could be that both "A" and "B" both independently are generated by "C". Or it could be the case that although states of "B" are modified by states of "A", "B" ultimately originates from "C".

Now even if we were to describe the mind as being caused by the brain (although I believe the use of "cause" here is technically inappropriate), this needn't have any implications that the mind has its origin in the brain. The picture on a television set is caused by its internal components. This of course doesn't mean to say that the origin of the storylines of the tv programmes being shown have their origin in the tv sets internal components! Indeed it would be preposterous to suppose they do! I believe a partial analogy can be drawn here in that it is equally ludicrous, if not more so, that the richness of our mental lives is somehow mysterious created ex nihilo by physical processes.

 

[asthmatic camel]

I put the following which I wrote in another thread and got male. In fact it was male by miles!:

That's odd Ian, I inserted the same text and it called me a boring tw*t.

Regards,

AC. XXXXXXXX