gender fascination

[eirias]

Fascinating. I recently found the Gender Genie, a site that will take an input of text (>=500 words is best) and guess the gender of the person who's written it. I had a hunch, for some reason that is unclear in my mind but that distinctly relates to tone, that my public LJ entries would mark me as a male and that my private entries would mark me as a female. I was correct. I should note that I gave a larger sample for my public entries, so there is a potential confound, but both sets were well above the 500-word threshold. This is largely because I went further back in my public entry history, as so many of them are short, and in the process came upon some very long ones.

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[madmanatw.livejournal.com]

That's especially precious since I think you're the only person on this filter who can't actually picture me doing that, and who for that matter has no first hand evidence that it isn't true ;)

And while I probably wouldn't have otherwise, now that there's been this much talk of it, I obviously must devote some mental energy to imagining this.