Brownian Motion Posted May 8, 2005 Report Share Posted May 8, 2005 It's probably not infallible, since it guessed Ann Coulter was a guy. http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted May 8, 2005 Report Share Posted May 8, 2005 Hmmm..put in one of my posts from the political forum and got this: Words: 189 (NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.) Female Score: 242 Male Score: 492 Okay, not bad, but it didn't realize I was a moose!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted May 8, 2005 Report Share Posted May 8, 2005 It's probably not infallible, since it guessed Ann Coulter was a guy. Since this isn't the political forum, I'll show a little restraint... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdogus Posted May 8, 2005 Report Share Posted May 8, 2005 (edited) My results: Words: 768 (NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.) Female Score: 802 Male Score: 1563 The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male! It seems to have been correct with us guys (so far), but it's apparently not all that amazing: The Gender Genie knows all. According to Koppel and Argamon, the algorithm should predict the gender of the author approximately 80% of the time. Accuracy Results Am I right? yes 159762 (59.38%) no 109309 (40.62%) 269071 total responses since September 13, 2003 Now, people could be reporting that the genie has guessed incorrectly just out of spite, but according to these numbers, the algorithm sucks. Edited May 8, 2005 by gdogus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spontooneous Posted May 8, 2005 Report Share Posted May 8, 2005 In honor of the impending Bloomsday, I entered a piece of Molly Bloom's soliloquy... It guessed male. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdogus Posted May 8, 2005 Report Share Posted May 8, 2005 In honor of the impending Bloomsday, I entered a piece of Molly Bloom's soliloquy... It guessed male. Beautiful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted May 8, 2005 Report Share Posted May 8, 2005 I submitted a piece of short fiction I wrote a few months ago. It guessed male. Female Score: 3692 Male Score: 4335 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalo Posted May 9, 2005 Report Share Posted May 9, 2005 Ann Coulter's NOT a guy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spontooneous Posted May 9, 2005 Report Share Posted May 9, 2005 I was having trouble deciding my gender. Turns out I'm male. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Rat Posted May 9, 2005 Report Share Posted May 9, 2005 Words: 514 (NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.) Female Score: 688 Male Score: 971 The words it chooses as "male" ae strange. For instance, my big masculine scorer was the word "some." --eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maren Posted May 9, 2005 Report Share Posted May 9, 2005 Things I wrote in the Politics Forum here were classified as "male" -- But an abstract for a scientific paper I ghost-wrote turned out "female" -- of course, the topic was "estrogen replacement therapy" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brownian Motion Posted May 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2005 But an abstract for a scientific paper I ghost-wrote turned out "female" -- of course, the topic was "estrogen replacement therapy" Is it common among medical researchers to farm out their writing tasks? My wife, who is an historian, has never heard of this being the case in her discipline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Rat Posted May 9, 2005 Report Share Posted May 9, 2005 But an abstract for a scientific paper I ghost-wrote turned out "female" -- of course, the topic was "estrogen replacement therapy" Is it common among medical researchers to farm out their writing tasks? My wife, who is an historian, has never heard of this being the case in her discipline. I have a friend who makes a pretty good living doing this sort of work for doctors. I suppose either historians are expected to be able to write, or there is less excess cash hanging around to pay ghostwriters in the history field than in the health field. --eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maren Posted May 9, 2005 Report Share Posted May 9, 2005 But an abstract for a scientific paper I ghost-wrote turned out "female" -- of course, the topic was "estrogen replacement therapy" Is it common among medical researchers to farm out their writing tasks? My wife, who is an historian, has never heard of this being the case in her discipline. I have a friend who makes a pretty good living doing this sort of work for doctors. I suppose either historians are expected to be able to write, or there is less excess cash hanging around to pay ghostwriters in the history field than in the health field. --eric There's not a lot of excess cash in academic medical research (pharmaceutical/device industry, maybe... but even there the significant $$$ would go to the ad copy writers, not the scientific writers!). It's more that academic history is so closely intertwined with writing -- whereas lab bench, operating room and bedside skills are quite a bit further afield -- and also, my "ghost-writing" has always been for people that I work with daily: answering phones, pipetting samples, doing literature searches (in the library in the old days, mostly online now) and writing grant proposals, reports, patient-consent-forms and a million other things... and a lot of the "writing" is re-writing, copy-editing. Or in the case of an abstract, distilling the gist of a 10 page paper into 500 words, 250 words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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