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bdawg923 (Max)

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Gender Genie
« on: April 21, 2007, 06:48:29 AM »
Gender Genie

I found this cool website that determines whether the writer of a block of text is male or female. I tried with one of Ashley's blog posts and then one of Ryan's blog posts and it correctly determined that the first was written by a female and the latter by a male! So cool!! :)
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Re: Gender Genie
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2007, 06:55:06 AM »
That is good. i just put one of blog posts and find that it was male and correct
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Ryan Wagner

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Re: Gender Genie
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2007, 11:06:34 PM »
That is absolutely insane! I couldn't really fool the thing until I actually tried to understand how it was working. It is almost scary to think that they can figure out the gender of a person just by checking for certain words/patterns. Makes you wonder what the government can do with a block of text?
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Re: Gender Genie
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2007, 12:15:45 AM »
They can probably write things as if you wrote it. Scary...
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Re: Gender Genie
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2007, 04:35:50 AM »
I just tested the Gender Genie with the article that I wrote for CyberNet. It turns out that I'm female... :D

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Words: 1438
(NOTE: The genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.)

Female Score: 3095
Male Score: 1465

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!
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Re: Gender Genie
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2007, 08:17:37 AM »
Quote from: Pieter De Decker on April 25, 2007, 04:35:50 AM
I just tested the Gender Genie with the article that I wrote for CyberNet. It turns out that I'm female... :D
Just tried with one my blog entries and it to thinks I'm female ::)
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Re: Gender Genie
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2007, 11:27:01 PM »
I guess that's good news that a computer can't tell a gender purely from the writing...maybe I'll be able to sleep tonight. :)
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