http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.php
Gender Genie
Well i submitted about two dozen of my poems to a text analysis that was supposed to determine my gender. Only 3 of the poems came up as male authored and one ambiguous! So then i just sent the entire file (17000 words) as one unit, and still it came down firmly on the side of female authorship. So there you have it. God made a mistake;)
Actually the sites own statistics indicate they are wrong (by customer reports) 60.61% of the time! So one would do much better by taking them at the opposite of their word!
The algorithm designers (who claim 80% success rate) are working with the web site now to see if they can improve the accuracy a little according to the NYT. They also note it is meant for longer prose samples...
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