So I Write Like a Girl...

[Keith]

This is funny. Found this as a link from Stephanie's blog, and of course I had to try it.

The Gender Genie attempts to pick out words from what you have written to discern whether you are male or female. Amused, I put in some stuff I have written for the front end of the site, and all of it has come back as female. Truth be told, the writing for ItB.com almost came back dead even on male vs. female, but I found this exercise fun nonetheless.

I next copied in passages from some fiction I had written, and all of it came back male, so who knows.

From a NY Times article linked on the site above:

what the gender-identifying algorithm picks up on is that women are apparently far more likely than men to use personal pronouns -- ''I,'' ''you'' and ''she'' especially. Men, on the other hand, prefer so-called determiners -- ''a,'' ''the,'' ''that,'' ''these'' -- along with numbers and quantifiers like ''more'' and ''some.'' What this suggests, according to Moshe Koppel, an author of the Israeli project, is that women are more comfortable talking or thinking about people and relationships, while men prefer to contemplate things.