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[sigma7]

The GenderAnalyzer purports to be able to discern if a blog's writer is male or female. I gave it three shots. It said my blog is written by a woman, rewil's is written by a man, and that erica_roo's is not in English. That's 0-3, GA.

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[endersgame3.livejournal.com]

hey, it got me! i'm surprised, usually these sorts of things always tell me i'm a man.

Yes 57 % 658
No 43 % 504

poll results - apparently its only got about a 50-50 chance of being right.

[redmonster.livejournal.com]

It's half right about me. It guessed female for my LJ, male for Siryn's page.

[thatnickguy.livejournal.com]

It got me correctly, so it's kind of working!

[ravenskye8.livejournal.com]

Strangely enough my workplace's net nanny won't let me get to the page... so, I can't comment on its workings...

But - I will admit that when I first started reading your LJ, I thought you were female...

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

It's the hair.

[lady-findel.livejournal.com]

For me

fiction & poetry = female
academic = male

I think herein lies the crux of the whole thing.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking this is one of those tests that tell us more about the testmakers than the respondents.

[lady-findel.livejournal.com]

Of course... It depends on which words are considered as typically male or female.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

It pegged as male all the ones I tried. However, the "browser history gender test" one thinks I'm definitely female, apparently because of all the shopping sites (target.com, walmart.com, etc) I visit in the Toy Hunt.

[patchsassy.livejournal.com]

I'm a male, apparently. It probably saw the "football!" tag and immediately rendered its conclusion. :P

[erica-roo.livejournal.com]

Well some days, it might be right... It's an erica_roo brand of English at any rate. That's hilariously funny to me.

[erica-roo.livejournal.com]

Methinks, the subjects "Bzzzz" and "Ganked from Kauri" have confoozled the poor thing.

[jenny0.livejournal.com]

It thinks I'm a man - which actually might say something good about the testmakers, given that the only possibly gender-identifying thing I can think of is that I mention my husband pretty frequently.

[samson-of-5.livejournal.com]

Well genderanalyzer tells me Im a guy, relieving me of those 34 years of possible confusion I may have been under!