Predicting gender
Oct. 31st, 2003 02:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarigwaemirAd Mundo Exteriore,
According to the Gender Genie, an algorithm to predict gender from writing samples, I am "male" in my style of writing blog entries. Furthermore, after pasting in a sample of my actual formal nonfiction writing, I apparently sounded even more overwhelmingly male. On the other hand, my college essay was characterized as female, while my true fiction writing was, again, male albeit by a narrower margin.
This result explains all those times when I got virtually beaten up in chatrooms because I was mistaken for a boy. (The people who were doing the "beating up" were male, and they were annoyed at me because I was being obnoxious on purpose. The sad thing is, I was typing fanciful nonsense, and they thought I was being condescending.) I don't really get it, because "Tari" sounds like a girl's name to me, but apparently not to others. Anyway, the people who "cyber-punched" me in the face were all properly apologetic after I made it clear that I was a "she", and therefore they should be writing, "punches her in the face" not "punches him in the face". ^_^
I will do laundry, instead of going to sleep...
...Tari
According to the Gender Genie, an algorithm to predict gender from writing samples, I am "male" in my style of writing blog entries. Furthermore, after pasting in a sample of my actual formal nonfiction writing, I apparently sounded even more overwhelmingly male. On the other hand, my college essay was characterized as female, while my true fiction writing was, again, male albeit by a narrower margin.
This result explains all those times when I got virtually beaten up in chatrooms because I was mistaken for a boy. (The people who were doing the "beating up" were male, and they were annoyed at me because I was being obnoxious on purpose. The sad thing is, I was typing fanciful nonsense, and they thought I was being condescending.) I don't really get it, because "Tari" sounds like a girl's name to me, but apparently not to others. Anyway, the people who "cyber-punched" me in the face were all properly apologetic after I made it clear that I was a "she", and therefore they should be writing, "punches her in the face" not "punches him in the face". ^_^
I will do laundry, instead of going to sleep...
...Tari
