As of the time I write this, Genderanalyzer says “We think [this page] is written by a man.”

Go figure.

Do we call it ‘artificial ignorance’ then?

FEMALE:
[with]
[if]
[not]
[where]
[be]
[when]
[your]
[her]
[we]
[should]
[she]
[and]
[me]
[myself]
[hers]
[was]
[to]

MALE:
[around]
[what]
[more]
[are]
[as]
[who]
[below]
[is]
[these]
[the]
[a] 3
[at]
[it]
[many]
[said]
[above]

(Teresa, ‘scuse the verticals, BB ain’t fixed-width)

I will say that even on message boards, people responding to something I wrote inevitably address me as “dude” or “that guy”.

Oh well.

…which was a parody election manifesto, so to was the “we”s that did it.

The map is not the territory; especially if the map is drawn by some dot-com-2.0 yahoos with too much python and not enough statistics.

Unexpected bonus: With seven tabs open, my firefox truncates this one as “GenderAnal…”

But yeah. Currently, totally pointless.

But having grown up in the days when we were taught in science class that women’s brains stopped growing before men’s, that an intelligent woman was an anomaly and that intelligent women tended to have smaller breasts and be less attractive, this analyzer makes me boak.

If they are researching whether there are any statistically significant differences in the way each gender writes, and what we write about, their results at this stage are “not really”. If the researchers have assumed there is a difference, then the results so far suggest that they need to revisit their assumptions.

- Udo

@#18: This /is/ training data for it. It will become accustom to the world’s diversity, and on June 9th, 2012 it will become self-aware.

Keywords relationship, shoes; animated GIFs of sparkling fairies, kissing emoticons = female

Keywords gaming, beer, technical lingo; animated GIFs of large breasts, mooning emoticons = male

That’s my guess. Clearly, we’re dealing with geniuses. :P

Hey, these people know their gender stereotypes very well.

Could be worse. Last time I directly inquired as to someone’s gender, I did not get so gracious a response.

Maybe someone could make a similar website that lets me ask women if they’re pregnant.

In spoken conversation these usually include things like, kind of, more hedges and, um, conversational noise, y’know?

(To my mind the gender trait here is signalling social non-dominance, which the females do more)

Or using “I think” rather than just asserting your opinion as fact. Or empathising and being agreeable.

I know someone did a thesis looking for these kinds of thing in IRC-style chat – specifically at whether people moderated their language style to the supposed gender of the person they were talking to.

This is statistically real diffrence but you’ll find a lot of overlap between boys and girls.

But I don’t know about more deliberate written work – people will use different voices for different purposes, For eg, as noted above, technical documentation will come out male.

Of course it’s (I imagine) training and been fed a lot of examples – like a clever spam filter. So if it gets to working, it would indeed be interesting to see how.

Or maybe the program just latched onto the words “fourth-degree black belt” and assumed I must be a guy. (In case you didn’t look at my name or assumed “Nancy Jane” was just my online presence, I’m female.)