Gender genie?

xDemode · Nov 22, 2007

That's what the link says.

http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php

I have no clue if this has been posted already. So forgive me if this is a repeat thread. (But cut me some slack too. It's a big forum.)

This site is supposed to be able to detect female authors from male authors, just by giving a sample of the writing.

I always come out female, no matter what block of text I throw in. And well, I AM female. BUT... my MC is male. Honestly, I don't know what to make of that. Is that a bad thing? I hope not.

So I'm wondering what everyone else gets and whether this thing is accurate.

clockwatcher · Nov 22, 2007

So far, I've gotten about 3 males and 5 or 6 females. I'm female, by the way.

The males were from stories written from a male POV so I don't know if that makes a difference. Do I really write more male when I try to? Hmm.

xDemode · Nov 23, 2007

clockwatcher said:
So far, I've gotten about 3 males and 5 or 6 females. I'm female, by the way.

The males were from stories written from a male POV so I don't know if that makes a difference. Do I really write more male when I try to? Hmm.

I'm jealous. I wish I could write more like a male.

CACTUSWENDY · Nov 23, 2007

....

Female Score: 233
Male Score: 311

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Well, got one 'person' fooled. Took a passage of my serial killer...male, doing his thing.

(Interesting what they picked as 'key' words.)

L M Ashton · Nov 23, 2007

Evidently I'm a male. And the scene was with my female main character, too. Er...

KTC · Nov 23, 2007

I love this. Thanks for the post. I got:

Female Score: 318
Male Score: 318
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: unknown!

The interesting thing is I got this same response with 11 excerpts from 3 different novels so far. I'm going to try some more...but I love that I am getting this response. It is EXACTLY what I had hoped for!

ETA: Finally...a gender specific answer, by a nose:
Female Score: 712
Male Score: 710
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

Wraith · Nov 23, 2007

KTC said:
Female Score: 318
Male Score: 318
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: unknown!

Lol, that's awesome! There's no gender to genius. :tongue

I write in Romanian, but I entered an English text (something about a monster) and I got:

Female Score: 282
Male Score: 387

Which means I'm a male. Ooops!

But really, the feminine/masculine analysis made me go WTF? Those are very common words.

:Shrug:

misslissy · Nov 23, 2007

Female every time.

Something interesting though, I'd definitely agree.

LilliCray · Nov 23, 2007

If I took all the male keywords and copied and pasted them into a Word document, would I get a female score of 0?

I entered one piece with two female MCs and one with two male MCs, not from the same WIP. The first said I was female, the second said I was male. Veeeeeery interesting....

Hapax Legomenon · Nov 23, 2007

The only time I ever get male is when I write with female characters.

Which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

It's automatically skewed that when you write in first person to skew female (words like "me" and "we" are counted feminine...) and I usually write first person male and third person female.

Crazy, innit?

WittyandorIronic · Nov 23, 2007

My 3rd person female MC POV romance snippet came out overwhelmingly female. lol.
I just c&ped the portion I wrote for the thread in Writing Prompts, "Write the start of a novel", so I hadn't edited it or really worked it, but there were WAY too many "nots". lol. I will have to keep an eye out for that.

KTC · Nov 23, 2007

The one novel I took excerpt after excerpt from had no female characters. It still said it didn't know. And it was actually the novel that I finally got the female reading from...I've tried some more. I can't get a male reading no matter what I paste.

waylander · Nov 23, 2007

Consistently coming up as female which is........interesting.

maxmordon · Nov 23, 2007

I chose to put exerpts of famous novels to see what does famous authors get:

George Orwell's 1984:

Female Score: 109
Male Score: 91

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World:

Female Score: 155
Male Score: 179

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Ernest Hemingway:

Female Score: 27
Male Score: 66

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Pilosopher's stone:

Female Score: 75
Male Score: 101

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice:

Female Score: 45
Male Score: 100

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Anne Rice's Interview with the vampire:

Female Score: 170
Male Score: 127

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

The Iliad:

Female Score: 60
Male Score: 60

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: unknown!

Virginia Woolf's Orlando:

Female Score: 53
Male Score: 99

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

lkp · Nov 23, 2007

maxmordon said:
The Iliad:

Female Score: 60
Male Score: 60

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: unknown!

Well, they got that part right I guess.

maxmordon · Nov 23, 2007

I wonder what does a translation gets. What about if the MC is female, the writer is male and the translator is female? or the other way around???

Hapax Legomenon · Nov 23, 2007

maxmordon said:
I wonder what does a translation gets. What about if the MC is female, the writer is male and the translator is female? or the other way around???

That's really interesting to think about... because a lot of them are by parts of speech (apparently, pronouns are feminine and prepositions are masculine), I'd still say that the original writer would have a lot of say in it.

truelyana · Nov 23, 2007

This is a really interesting site, and I couldn't resist. Apparently I'm male too, by 276 higher then 169. I have only tried out one story so far.

WittyandorIronic · Nov 23, 2007

KTC said:
The one novel I took excerpt after excerpt from had no female characters. It still said it didn't know. And it was actually the novel that I finally got the female reading from...I've tried some more. I can't get a male reading no matter what I paste.

lol...this just made me laugh. I immediately thought of all the school yard bullies yelling "You write like a girl!" HAHA. thanks for the laugh.

Shady Lane · Nov 23, 2007

Chapter 1 of WIP:

Female Score: 1100
Male Score: 1296

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Chapter 2:

Female Score: 1016
Male Score: 859

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

Chapter 3:

Female Score: 1158
Male Score: 1273

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Chapter 4:

Female Score: 1131
Male Score: 886

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

....this could go on for awhile...

(soy chica, btw)

ACEnders · Nov 23, 2007

this is hilarious! thanks for this thread..it was interesting seeing what others got! I got female...so I guess it worked for me.

Danger Jane · Nov 23, 2007

it's some really complex math. Those common words actually are key because apparently women tend to use more personal pronouns and men tend to use more articles and quantifiers. for instance.

Mine are usually overwhelmingly female. I analyzed some classics, Dickens and Woolf and they were fairly androgynous.

PROBABLY it has to do with my wild female teenager hormones and will calm down eventually. Then I will be ready to write CLASSICS

ETA: I used very large samples--the entirety of two of my stories, full text of Mrs. Dalloway, and only the first chapter of A Tale of Two Cities, because it froze my internet from longness.

And interesting to note because Virginia Woolf did write a whole essay thing on how great writers wrote from an androgynous mind.

donut · Nov 23, 2007

I'm male about 2/3 of the time, whether using fiction or blog entries. But it's always fairly close.

(I'm generally considered female, though not a big fan of gender myself)

DeleyanLee · Nov 23, 2007

I've seen this site before, it's great fun. When I test a male POV scene, it always comes out male. When I test a female POV scene, it always comes out female. I'm extremely pleased with those results. :-D

ORION · Nov 23, 2007

I did 600 words from LOTTERY

Female Score: 670
Male Score: 831
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

hmmm...what's really interesting is that about 60% of my emails from readers are from males.
For those who do not know I am most definitely female...

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