Former Member Posted July 15, 2010 Posted July 15, 2010 It's an interesting type application which analyzes a writer's "voice" and whether there are more indicators of female or male, a whole spectrum of results are possible. Nothing seriously meant to label gender or whatever. I thought it was interesting and the topic was posted on a writer's forum I was reading elsewhere. Hack Factor Gender Guesser The words you use can disclose identifying features. This tool attempts to determine an author's gender based on the words used. Submitted text is evaluated based on two types of writing: formal and informal. Formal writing includes fiction and non-fiction stories, articles, and news reports. Informal writing includes blog and chat-room text. (Email can be formal, informal, or some combination.) You should view the results based on the appropriate type of writing. Hacker Factor is currently developing a variation of this system that can estimate an authors age, type of English used (for narrowing down nationality), and whether the speaker uses English as a second language. For example, there are distinctions between American English, British English, Commonwealth, Canadian, Australian, and other dialects. Even within a major dialect such as American English, there are regionally specific subdialects. These variations are not limited to spoken words. Many of these dialect variations show up in the words we use. I supplied a few different examples and they all averaged out to this. My results: Genre: Informal Female = 3241 Male = 5494 Difference = 2253; 62.89% Verdict: MALE Genre: Formal Female = 2713 Male = 3645 Difference = 932; 57.32% Verdict: Weak MALE Weak emphasis could indicate European. I was born and grew up in Germany though my roots are USA Native American. ---Hope you have fun with it.
Tristan Posted July 15, 2010 Posted July 15, 2010 Apparently I'm either a weak male, a weak female or European Genre: Informal Female = 9671 Male = 12329 Difference = 2658; 56.04% Verdict: Weak MALE Weak emphasis could indicate European. Genre: Formal Female = 9875 Male = 8106 Difference = -1769; 45.08% Verdict: Weak FEMALE Weak emphasis could indicate European.
Krista Posted July 16, 2010 Posted July 16, 2010 Hmmm... Genre: Informal Female = 988 Male = 897 Difference = -91; 47.58% Verdict: Weak FEMALE Weak emphasis could indicate European Genre: Formal Female = 1008 Male = 614 Difference = -394; 37.85% Verdict: FEMALE
Tipdin Posted July 16, 2010 Posted July 16, 2010 Here are my results: Genre: Informal Female = 507 Male = 874 Difference = 367; 63.28% Verdict: MALE Genre: Formal Female = 571 Male = 543 Difference = -28; 48.74% Verdict: Weak FEMALE Weak emphasis could indicate European. Interesting analysis.
Arpeggio Posted July 16, 2010 Posted July 16, 2010 Genre: Informal Female = 327 Male = 370 Difference = 43; 53.08% Verdict: Weak MALE Genre: Formal Female = 125 Male = 259 Difference = 134; 67.44% Verdict: MALE
gardentuber Posted July 16, 2010 Posted July 16, 2010 Genre: Informal Female = 10413 Male = 10050 Difference = -363; 49.11% Verdict: Weak FEMALE Weak emphasis could indicate European. Genre: Formal Female = 7361 Male = 6552 Difference = -809; 47.09% Verdict: Weak FEMALE Weak emphasis could indicate European. Elsewhere: "While Gender Guesser may be 60% - 70% accurate, it is not 100% accurate. This is better than random guessing (50%), but should not be interpreted as "fact". In particular, men should not be offended if it says you write like a girl." OK... I hate this thing! It says I write like a girl! A girl!!! Then there's this thing: Gender Genie BTW... I hate this thing too (it's another version of the same algorithm)! It says I write like a girl, too!!!! Girls! I hate girls!!!
thatboyChase Posted July 16, 2010 Posted July 16, 2010 a more formal work analyzed below - Genre: Informal Female = 2446 Male = 8359 Difference = 5913; 77.36% Verdict: MALE Genre: Formal Female = 3053 Male = 5123 Difference = 2070; 62.65% Verdict: MALE something less formal - Genre: Informal Female = 1876 Male = 1989 Difference = 113; 51.46% Verdict: Weak MALE Weak emphasis could indicate European Genre: Formal Female = 1602 Male = 1288 Difference = -314; 44.56% Verdict: Weak FEMALE Weak emphasis could indicate European.
Dolores Esteban Posted July 16, 2010 Posted July 16, 2010 Genre: Informal Female = 52814 Male = 71131 Difference = 18317; 57.38% Verdict: Weak MALE Weak emphasis could indicate European. Genre: Formal Female = 40346 Male = 51167 Difference = 10821; 55.91% Verdict: Weak MALE Weak emphasis could indicate European.
Site Administrator Cia Posted July 16, 2010 Site Administrator Posted July 16, 2010 LMAO, Ah well. I'm okay with that I guess Genre: Informal Female = 932 Male = 2053 Difference = 1121; 68.77% Verdict: MALE Genre: Formal Female = 585 Male = 1028 Difference = 443; 63.73% Verdict: MALE
Nephylim Posted July 19, 2010 Posted July 19, 2010 Genre: Informal Female = 1842 Male = 1207 Difference = -635; 39.58% Verdict: FEMALE Genre: Formal Female = 480 Male = 847 Difference = 367; 63.82% Verdict: MALE Interesting.
Myval Posted July 20, 2010 Posted July 20, 2010 Genre: Formal Female = 3143 Male = 3480 Difference = 337; 52.54% Verdict: Weak MALE Weak emphasis could indicate European. Genre: Informal Female = 879 Male = 396 Difference = -483; 31.05% Verdict: FEMALE
Former Member Posted July 24, 2010 Author Posted July 24, 2010 for informal it said i wrote like a weak male and for formal i wrote as a weak female i can understand it saying i write as a female because pretty much every book i read is written by a woman. and Weak male. yeah i dont write masculine i'm some Tough guy character lol.
Caedus Posted August 1, 2010 Posted August 1, 2010 Genre: Informal Female = 2299 Male = 2311 Difference = 12; 50.13% Verdict: Weak MALE Weak emphasis could indicate European. Genre: Formal Female = 1388 Male = 1415 Difference = 27; 50.48% Verdict: Weak MALE Weak emphasis could indicate European.
Menorain Posted August 1, 2010 Posted August 1, 2010 I'm not really too sure what to make of this, but here goes nothing. Genre: Informal Female = 1529 Male = 2164 Difference = 635; 58.59% Verdict: Weak MALE (Weak emphasis could indicate European). Genre: Formal Female = 1018 Male = 1719 Difference = 701; 62.8% Verdict: MALE
Agaith Posted August 1, 2010 Posted August 1, 2010 Genre: Informal Female = 13618 Male = 13568 Difference = -50; 49.9% Verdict: Weak FEMALE Weak emphasis could indicate European. Genre: Formal Female = 7978 Male = 9286 Difference = 1308; 53.78% Verdict: Weak MALE Weak emphasis could indicate European. Of note is about the length of writing you include. I only put 500 words in at first and came up different to when i put the rest of my story
Former Member Posted August 1, 2010 Author Posted August 1, 2010 Of note is about the length of writing you include. I only put 500 words in at first and came up different to when i put the rest of my story Yes, I agree. I tried a few stories of mine which were in quite different genres, and sometimes copied/pasted the entire story (since they're shorter), and the results were rather different than when I did less than 500 words or so.
ConcreteHeart Posted August 2, 2010 Posted August 2, 2010 I put in 3k words of formal writing. Genre: Formal Female = 5110 Male = 3978 Difference = -1132; 43.77% Verdict: Weak FEMALE Weak emphasis could indicate European.
Camilo Posted August 4, 2010 Posted August 4, 2010 Genre: Informal Female = 14978 Male = 13218 Difference = -1760; 46.87% Verdict: Weak FEMALE Weak emphasis could indicate European. Genre: Formal Female = 8458 Male = 10758 Difference = 2300; 55.98% Verdict: Weak MALE Weak emphasis could indicate European.
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