Is your blog feminine or masculine?
Comments: 5 - Date: December 29th, 2006 - Categories: Off Topic!
Gender Genie is a genius because it figured out that my blog is written by a female and Josh Simon’s blog is written by a male. Ok, a sample size of 2 probably isn’t sufficient, which is why I’m blogging about it, hoping others will try it out and report back.
I’m fascinated because it just does a simple keyword analysis. I hate over simplifications and gender stereotypes, but apparently women use “with” and men use “around” in their posts.
UPDATE: I can stop the stereotyping! My female friend Andrea’s blog has been rated as male.
Comment by Tony - 29 December 2006 @ 10:10 pm
My blog was found to be exceedingly female (off the charts). Depressingly, this came a day after I found out (courtesy the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sex/index_cookie.shtml) that my brain operates like a female brain. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it was a bit demasculating after finding out that my (apparent) girlfriend’s brain operates more like a male brain. Ouch.
Comment by j - 29 December 2006 @ 10:42 pm
That’s great to hear… now we can discount Gender Genie as being totally full of it.
Comment by j - 29 December 2006 @ 11:08 pm
I took the BBC male/female test and I’m exactly 50/50 male/female. Very interesting test!
Comment by Andrea - 2 January 2007 @ 2:09 pm
Hi Joanie :) This is pretty funny, apparently my gender is ambiguous…I double checked and it’s true, gender genie says my blog posts are male. so then I took the BBC survey and it says I’m 50/50. What I thought was so strange is the keywords on the gender genie that were said to be male/female. Like “the” “a” and “at” are more male, and “and”, “if”, and “with” are female? If that’s really true, how bizarre…
Comment by Anna - 16 March 2007 @ 9:31 am
Hi Joanie,
Long time no see. Your blog rocks!
I just found out that my blog is male :(
Hope you are doing well.
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