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Gender Genie

This amusing chunk of software claims to be able to pick the gender of an author of a piece of text with an accuracy of 80%. However, the stats for the site reveal an accuracy of only 50% and my tests on the system found that it got it wrong more often than not. It kept dithering on my gender, so I think it just takes a pot shot rather than using any real science

© 23.08.2003 redwolf in net
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Based on blog entries on this site, Gender Genie has pretty much well pegged me as female. Interestingly enough it pegged me as male only when I was blabbering about maccy-techy stuff. — posted by lucie at 25.08.2003 12:28 AEST | #
I gave it a shot using paragraphs from some of the stories archived here and it failed in every case — posted by Red Wolf at 25.08.2003 13:21 AEST | #
It thinks I am female for some reason. I reckon it's a one line CGI script that flips a coin. — posted by sbszine at 26.08.2003 16:34 AEST | #
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