Predict the sex of the author
An algorithm that attempts to predict the sex of the author from various aspects of a text: upload your text here. The scoring chart is amusing. The algorithm does its work with prepositions, pronouns, and copulas, all the little connective words.
Results for "Apples, Oranges, and Pears":
Female Score: 19092
Male Score: 17000
Results for Tradition & Protocol part 1:
Female Score: 39576
Male Score: 32059
Results for the opening section of the NLBS/NaNo project:
Female Score: 3852
Male Score: 3692
Heh. However, I'm crushed by the results for "The adventure of the displaced Watcher", since they mean I failed to write like Watson/ACD:
Female Score: 25935
Male Score: 24201
(Though Mr P is now telling me that "The Red-Headed League" is, in an excerpt, scoring rather female, so... the algorithm might be kinda culture-specific. Unshockingly.)
Results for "Apples, Oranges, and Pears":
Female Score: 19092
Male Score: 17000
Results for Tradition & Protocol part 1:
Female Score: 39576
Male Score: 32059
Results for the opening section of the NLBS/NaNo project:
Female Score: 3852
Male Score: 3692
Heh. However, I'm crushed by the results for "The adventure of the displaced Watcher", since they mean I failed to write like Watson/ACD:
Female Score: 25935
Male Score: 24201
(Though Mr P is now telling me that "The Red-Headed League" is, in an excerpt, scoring rather female, so... the algorithm might be kinda culture-specific. Unshockingly.)
Words: 9203
Female Score: 11100
Male Score: 13095
Female Score: 2608
Male Score: 1990
However, when I paste in just the narrator part, I get male.
Female Score: 703
Male Score: 1135
Very interesting.
I'll have to read the info about how this algorithm was arrived at later-- on first glance it looks fascinating.
Hob
I'm a little bemused that most of what I write came out male. All the non-fiction and blogging I tried and about half of my fiction.
Is there something I should tell my husband?