Via Dynamist Blog: An algorithm that will take text and tell you if it was written by a male or female.
I used my Adam Curry blog post since it was long and it correctly identified me as a male.
Now I’m going to be bad and grab some other blog entries from other people’s blogs.
First let’s see if it gets Ray right….source… verdict: Male.
Now Carlene…source…verdict: male
Suzi…source(without the quotes at the beginning)…verdict: Male.
Andy…source…verdict: Male
OK does it just always say Male?
I’ve run a couple of entries through that engine in the past and came up with about a 60/40 male/female split. Unsurprisingly (and somewhat stereotypically) when my topic was emotional the algorithm said female and when I was ranting it said male.
Something I find even more interesting is the field of literary forensics – identifying works written by the same author by looking at sentence construction, punctuation, paragraph length, etc.
Doesn’t really surprise me, though, Ron. I have more sack than most men I know.