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[bryant]

To my vast amusement, the Koppel-Argamon Gender Predictor believes Reese is female. Seriously! There’s some sort of gender-determining algorithm which looks way too simplistic from where I’m standing which is meant to determine whether the author is male or female. The latest Dear Brother tests as feminine.

Link thanks to Kip, who I don’t know at all so why am I using his first name?

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[janne.livejournal.com]

So I amused myself by running the text of this LJ entry through the gender predictor, which tells me that Bryant is...

Verdict: Female!
Words: 73; Total=59.

(Breakdown: Thes:3 As:0 Somes:1 Numbers:1 Its:0
Withs:0 s-Possessives:0 Possessive Pronouns:1 Fors:0 Nots:0)

[janne.livejournal.com]

... and then I ran my own comment through the link:

Verdict: Male!
Words: 22; Total=34.

*giggle*. Okay, I'll stop the predictions there =)

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Now, it does say on the page that the algorithm is designed for fiction. And these comments are awfully short. So I gave it 300 words of my novel.

I'm female.

[kodi]

Yeah, I gave it the only two pieces of my fiction over 100 words I had handy, and found out I'm female. (I'm not.)

So far, it sounds like the algorithm is perfect except for a minor off-by-one error.