Mark Wieczorek
Apr 19th, 2007
Apr 19th, 2007
The Gender Genie
The Gender Genie is an online tool, based on an algorithm, based on a study, that claims to be able to tell whether or not you’re male or female based on just your language patterns. Paste some text into The Gender Genie, click submit and it will tell you (with 80% accuracy) whether or not you’re a man or a woman.
I’ve seen similar question & answer tests that guessed whether or not you were male or female (but it’s unfortunately lost now to the vast sea of sites I visited before I del.icio.us existed).
Play with: The Gender Genie
I’d love to see the other ones you mentioned, if you ever do remeber where they were. I’m not sure where the 80% stat that the authors claimed in the article came from. The stats on their own website show that it performs barely better than chance:
http://www.bookblog.net/gender/stats.php