I was just browsing through another blog and I came across a post about the Gender Genie website. The Gender Genie is a tool that uses an algorithm to determine the gender of the author.
I thought this sounded pretty interesting, so I visited the Gender Genie site and pasted some of my recent blog entries into the box. Out of four tries, the Gender Genie was accurate only 50% of the time in guessing that I am female. I wasn’t really surprised, though, because my writing is often mistaken for a male’s. For instance, if I post on forums or message boards, people tend to assume that I’m a male until I reveal otherwise.
What did surprise me is that the Gender Genie tabbed my reviews as male writing and my promotional posts as female. Weird!
Anyway, it’s a fun site, so check it out!