This is really amazing. A computer program has been developed that can tell the gender of an author by scanning for key words. Supposedly, it's about 80% accurate on both fiction and non-fiction writing. So I put it to the test, and I copied and pasted in my blog from last night (Lord of the Ringers), and here are the results:
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)
Female Score: 839
Male Score: 803
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!
Read more here at Nature.com.
Posted by 2Flower at September 30, 2003 10:58 AM | TrackBack