How Male/Female is Your Writing?

[s0978]

Copy/Paste writing sample into here (http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html).

I tried 2 samples, came out male first, female second. Guess I'm a hermaphrodite. Interesting concept, though.

[melancholeric]

I tried several samples*. Apparently I am a female, because most of the results claimed that.

I think the way it tries to tell the gender from a few keywords is quite ridiculous, especially when the words are very common in normal writing.

I also noticed that the feminine keywords are more human related, and masculine words are more impersonal. The test is apparently based on some variation of the "women are feelers and men are thinkers" stereotype.

And apparently that makes me an F.


( * that was a freudian typo if I've ever seen one. I first typed "spamles", and corrected that before posting. Most of the samples where from my posts on this board. )

[Nighthawk]

I guess I'm a stereotypical male writer. Pasted in a bout 10 samples and all came out male.

[cathmc]

I just got male three times in a row, in spite of my female-ness. I have to concur with melancholeric - it seems pretty ridiculous. I noticed that words that make things specific - the, a, an, these - were male. Vague words - if, when, should - were female. Sounds like a crock. Good writing is male, wishy-washy writing is female.

I'm tempted to paste my samples in all day just to bring down this thing's accuracy rating.

Maybe I'm just mad it thinks I'm a man :rant:

[Boneca]

Weird. The non-fiction texts I entered all came out "male", and the fiction ones came out "male" where I had a male lead character and "female" where I was writing out of a female character's perspective.

[Geoff]

Weird. The non-fiction texts I entered all came out "male", and the fiction ones came out "male" where I had a male lead character and "female" where I was writing out of a female character's perspective.

Did it not have the option robot? :laser:

-Geoff

[Birdsnest]

Female Score: 447
Male Score: 139
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

[Heather Harrison]

I found this some time ago and submitted a number of my writings. It found either male or female; I think it depended somewhat on the subject matter I chose to write. It is a little simplistic in how it makes its judgments, but it is fun to play with.

Heather Harrison

[booyalab]

my results: "that is one butch chick." lol :angry:

[shaytana]

Words: 241
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 415
Male Score: 809

[Lee]

Words: 996


(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 1056
Male Score: 1819


The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

[philonightmare]

I submitted 7 examples and 4/7 were female and 3/7 male. I'm not surprised. One of my "male" examples was taken from one of my most angry and spiteful posts to my lj. One of my "female" examples was taken from one of my fictional stories that one could say was a "love-story."

[bomba923]

Male...Male...Male...every time

[Neppy]

It varies.

For the first entry of my blog on these forums:


Words: 1696
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 2871
Male Score: 3341

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

For an entry on my private blog:


Words: 506
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 1291
Male Score: 1180

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!
On both, the scores seem pretty close. So I'm not very extreme one way or the other. ;D

[abathur]

judging by the 60% accuracy, at least by self-reporting, it's a little better than randomly guessing a gender.

[Hexchild]

I used each chapter from my book on Elfwood as a separate sample. Apparently I'm a male-ish fiction writer:


Chapter I (12035 words):

Female Score: 12893
Male Score: 16791


Chapter II (10289 words):

Female Score: 11651
Male Score: 13727


Chapter III (5303 words):

Female Score: 5461
Male Score: 6959


Chapter IV (9162 words):

Female Score: 11817
Male Score: 12181


Chapter V (11332 words):

Female Score: 12200
Male Score: 15208

[GreyGhost]

Yup, I write like a guy.

[LuridLemur]

Words: 2217

Female Score: 3189
Male Score: 2907

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!
I put in some others too, and the male/female scores were all around 50/50 with varying top scores.

[psychic hygiene]

I think it depended somewhat on the subject matter I chose to write. It is a little simplistic in how it makes its judgments, but it is fun to play with.

Heather HarrisonThe subject matter in the blog entries I posted on here are certainly a female perspective. Yet, both entries are deemed to be a male authorship. A detached/observer writing style may be deemed as male to this test.
Words: 623

(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 518
Male Score: 1603

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

[moni]

Greasy hair... Shimmery face... Stiff fingers... Hunched back... Red eyes... Focused brain... After programming for 25 hours straight (with the occasional pee break) in the wonderful computer lab at Sloan, I have finally reached nerdlightenment. I still have much to do and learn before I get into nerdvana though.


awww, i just put the above text in... and the results are:

Words: 48


Female Score: 0
Male Score: 44

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

*edit: i tried another blog entry and got 370 for female and 350 for male.

[Sackanaka]

Female Score: 1454
Male Score: 2234

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Heh!

[kuranes]

my results: "that is one butch chick." lol :angry:

Ha Ha. You need to get your voice post to them. I agree with the poster who said it alters your "intimidation factor". But it also made you much more desirable, IMO. I only mention this because you seem to be interested in these kind of things - as far as which forums/threads you are likely to post in.

[PenguinHunter]

Male here about 5 times, although one came within about 15 points. Kinda neat.

[Trystorp]

I got female 3 out of 4 times. I'm guessing that won't get me into the shower room though.

[zhang_bob]

Female Score: 386
Male Score: 175
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

Female Score: 658
Male Score: 609

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

Why does it think i an female if I was a male the last time i looked?

[Biff_Loman]

I submitted 6 samples of my writing. The Gender Genie identifed three of them correctly. Either I write like a chick half the time, or the GG only bats .500.

For what it's worth, the Genie identified the following passage as female.



The same could be said for mining and the manufacture of portland cement, both of which are heavy-hitters in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. Mining involves enormous rock crushers that use massive amounts of electricity, and portland cement must be baked before it can be mixed into concrete - and the world uses a lot of concrete.

The sooner we give up on fossil fuels, the better off we'll be.

Interesting.

[DeadDove]

Words: 305

(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 378
Male Score: 498

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!


That was my first entry that was kind of a blog for a site that I never ended up setting up. For shits and giggles I tried it with some poetry and all but TWO of the items I submitted cameback as female.

[God]

Female Score: 85
Male Score: 155

[meshou]

Words: 648
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 759
Male Score: 1273

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!Most gender tests (like the old TheSpark one), I get moderate to strong doodness. Only one I haven't been was the BBC one.

[TPol]

Female Score: 212
Male Score: 331

[booyalab]

I only mention this because you seem to be interested in these kind of things
suuuure

[Madrigal]

Hahaha, I posted one of my rants on fashion trends, just to test them. (I mean, 'how female is that topic', right?)

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

[Grrr]

Almost all my forum posts (they are rather short, frankly) tend to be extremely female, whereas samples of my academic papers are, apparently, male. The one that got a female result was on marriage issues in the Thackeray's Vanity Fair.
Funny how both we and myself are female.

[Humanophage]

Doesn't seem awfully reliable to me. Here's what I received after analysing a large forum post of mine on a very serious topic:


Female Score: 2406
Male Score: 2303
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

While the masculine points were split more or less evenly, 67% of the feminine score could be attributed to with and not, and 76% of it to with, not, and if. It's noAin't my fault I'm such a negative person.

[with] 16 x 52 = 832
[if] 5 x 47 = 235
[not] 29 x 27 = 783

The majority of my forum posts are very masculine though (usually 2:3), and my essays are consistently manlier than Sean Connery (1:2+):

Female Score: 1624
Male Score: 3252

Female Score: 203
Male Score: 591

Female Score: 331
Male Score: 726

Female Score: 1431
Male Score: 2641

Female Score: 1728
Male Score: 3322

Female Score: 3305
Male Score: 7657

Female Score: 255
Male Score: 702

Basically, the more impersonal a piece of text, the more masculine it is. Femininity, apparently, implies interaction.

[LastRailway]

I input 3 forum posts of mine and...


Words: 210
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 336
Male Score: 375

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!


Words: 184
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 260
Male Score: 290

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!


Words: 408
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 688
Male Score: 418

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

The last one has more words and is a blog post.

[Curtis24]

I've been told I write like someone from the 1700s. I always thought my handwriting looked girly.

[attila_the_hunny]

I've been told I write like someone from the 1700s. I always thought my handwriting looked girly.

It's not handwriting that's analyzed.

[Grrr]

Basically, the more impersonal a piece of text, the more masculine it is. Femininity, apparently, implies interaction.
True.

[cripple]

Doesn't seem awfully reliable to me.
It's just a piece of junk. I'd say my posts are masculine, you know, with authority, assertiveness and all that shit, but they come out as neutral for the most part in the genie.

[MoneyJungle]

Female Score: 2438
Male Score: 2053

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

I'm off to ruin Thanksgiving with news of my gender confusion...

[kali]

Blog entry:
Words: 552
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 676
Male Score: 756

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!


Fiction piece:
Words: 603
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 417
Male Score: 709

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!


you got me gender genie, you got me

[teleforce]

fiction:

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Words: 500

Female Score: 0
Male Score: 700
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

"the" is a male word? tf

edit: i posted real stuff, and it says i'm... complicated.

[CreativeChaos]

Original: I was wondering through the left over bodies the other day. This war has been god awful. I've tried my best to slay all of thos dirty rotten beasts, but, alas, they still haunt my dreams. Their worm eaten corpses have stenched the last of my clothes. My memory will never rid itself of that smell. I wanted to be more...so much more. Now life has erased the dreams I dreamed. I was born in the wrong time, to the wrong parents. It's all about luck, fate...we didn't choose our time or parents. All we can do is the best with what cards fate has dealt us.

Keywords: i [was] wondering through [the] left over bodies [the] other day this war has been god awful i have tried my best [to] slay all of thos dirty rotten beasts but alas they still haunt my dreams their worm eaten corpses have stenched [the] last of my clothes my memory will never rid itself of that smell i wanted [to] [be] moreso much [more] now life has erased [the] dreams i dreamed i [was] born in [the] wrong time [to] [the] wrong parents [it] [is] all about luck fatewe did [not] choose our time or parents all [we] can do [is] [the] best [with] [what] cards fate has dealt us .


Words: 110

(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 106
Male Score: 146

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!


Lol! I purposely tried to write macho crap. Guess it worked.

[Madrigal]

Random agit-prop post:

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Passive men OP:

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

[Polemarch]

Sounds like the key to the algorithm involves whether the words reflect a passive or active attitude towards the world. For example, was vs. is. Should vs. is.

Bunch of poppy cock.

[qualia]

Blog is very female, most recent academic long paper (100%, WOO), leans WAAAAY masculine.

Looks like it depends on what you write and why!

[Arachne]

Fiction samples were mixed "male" and "female."
Writing assignments for school were overwhelmingly "male." Now I feel my female voice is being oppressed by the MLA Handbook.

[Shadowlogical]

Words: 215
Female Score: 337
Male Score: 185

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

[OrionzRevenge]

Words: 555
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 790
Male Score: 750

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

[md5fungi]

Words: 658
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 664
Male Score: 732
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

[cripple]

I put this post through the genie :lol:
http://forums.intpcentral.com/showpost.php?p=1259941&postcount=2370

Words: 153

Female Score: 269
Male Score: 78

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

[Chunes]

My writing comes out quite balanced, with a slight male preference overall.

[aphemix]

tried a wide variety of long texts and came out male by around a 100% margin consistently. Kinda surprising; I think the results would be somewhat different if this thing was intelligent.

[JohnClay]

Blog entries....
http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=31295

Female Score: 341
Male Score: 149

Female Score: 523
Male Score: 302

Female Score: 1155
Male Score: 628

Female Score: 1283
Male Score: 760

I thought I was a male... :confused: :shock: :angry: :sick:

[INA]

girlie man . . .

Ahem


Words: 103
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 130
Male Score: 140

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!
http://bookblog.net/gender/male1.gif

Words: 885
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 1336
Male Score: 1474

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!
http://bookblog.net/gender/male1.gif

[tranquilbanana]

I think having "the" as a made word screws up all of my results. All of the text I've pasted in has had more "the" than any other word. If it didn't count "the" I probably would have had some female ones.

[gator]

Words: 2722
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 2404
Male Score: 4016

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

[Raccoon Love]

Words: 548
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 819
Male Score: 437

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

[Qfwfq]

Well this is a different test



Words: 186

(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 237
Male Score: 284

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!




Words: 1020
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 875
Male Score: 1758

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!



I noticed the "male" words tended to be quantitative in nature. Whereas the "female" words tended to be more posessive, or personal pronouns. I guess it comes back to the idea that men like to compare size, and women like to talk about people or be posessive.

with=52 points towards female... around= 42 for male... ahaha *thinks of Stiffler*

[Her Royal Highness]

Words: 2218
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 3856
Male Score: 2962
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

Cool shit. It was right.

Words: 219
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 492
Male Score: 353
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

Cool shit. It was right again.

emale Score: 668
Male Score: 521
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

Cool shit. It was right a third time.

Nice.

[ciphersort]

Typically, male. However, I did a fairly decent job of writing something gender neutral without looking into how it is scored.

[manza]

Three samples from my blag:

Female Score: 855
Male Score: 697

Female Score: 787
Male Score: 744

Female Score: 1156
Male Score: 1306

[md5fungi]

Female Score: 1156
Male Score: 1306

ewww ur a guy

(runs to the other side of the playground)

[Ragingkatsuki]

Female Score: 320
Male Score: 625
Got male. :)

[manza]

ewww ur a guy

(runs to the other side of the playground)

That sample was when I wrote about spending eight days camped out in the back country working my ass off in the field. I'm not all that surprised.

[C.J.Woolf]

That sample was when I wrote about spending eight days camped out in the back country working my ass off in the field. I'm not all that surprised.
So doing a lot of guy shit will turn anyone into Hemingway? Cool.

[StarNips]

Pretty androgynous with a slight male bent


Female Score: 230
Male Score: 251
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

[MiasmaResonance]

"Female Score: 4
Male Score: 54

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!"

I knew it.

[shmrie]

what's funny is all the 'nonfiction' I submitted, like papers for school and such, came out as male and all my fiction stuff, or anything I actually like to write came out as female.

[Qfwfq]

what's funny is all the 'nonfiction' I submitted, like papers for school and such, came out as male and all my fiction stuff, or anything I actually like to write came out as female.

makes sense given how they filter it.

[Yummy]

Words: 394

Female Score: 547
Male Score: 660

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

And

Words: 1418


Female Score: 1880
Male Score: 1874

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

[Wolfpine]

Female Score: 2682
Male Score: 2567

This was a lengthy story I wrote several months back. Aside from this, I tried a long-ish post from this forum, and got 230 female 278 male. My writing is androgynous.

[MontyBrogan]

Small passages (under 500 words):

Two examples of non-fiction prose: Male and Female

Two examples of fiction poetry/prose: Male and Female


Large Passages:

Fictional prose:

Words: 2603 Female Score: 3651 Male Score: 2196

Non-fiction prose:

Words: 1423 Female Score: 1557 Male Score: 964

[MontyBrogan]

I was curious about a few random male authors and their classifications. Variables such as historical period, evolution of language, translation of dialect, and so on, influence these results. I compiled each person’s most famous quotations for examples:

George Orwell:

Words: 359 Female Score: 427 Male Score: 738

"Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me. "

Jack Kerouac:

Words: 335 Female Score: 182 Male Score: 372

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”

Hunter S. Thompson

Words: 1474 Female Score: 1352 Male Score: 1953

“The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”

Kurt Vonnegut Junior

Words: 1078 Female Score: 1280 Male Score: 1976

“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky:

Words: 453 Female Score: 531 Male Score: 728

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness."

Francis Scott Fitzgerald:

Words: 740 Female Score: 574 Male Score: 1010

"I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again."

Isaac Asimov:

Words: 536 Female Score: 857 Male Score: 937

“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers”

Albert Einstein:

Words: 1290 Female Score: 1641 Male Score: 2196

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

Intriguingly, eight male authors possessed both masculine and effeminate characteristics within their writings but remained predominately male.

[kali]

^ interesting!

Schopenhauer
Words: 1794
Female Score: 1552
Male Score: 3652
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Nietzsche
Words: 4158
Female Score: 5661
Male Score: 5626
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

Winston Churchill (speech)
Words: 3153
Female Score: 4288
Male Score: 4833
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Winston Churchill (book excerpt)
Words: 1577
Female Score: 913
Male Score: 1803
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

[puzzled-observer]

Words: 3400
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 0
Male Score: 9001