Interesting. With segments of less than 500 words, it pegs me as a man 3 out of 4 times. With segemets of more than 500 words, it pegs me as a woman 3 out of 4 times.

I don't know what that means, but I thought it was wacky.

Thanks for putting in the blog entry choice -- I didn't really feel like transcribing 500 words of someone else's fiction.

Sarah | September 16, 2003 11:06 AM

Someone took yours and made a version that runs your entire LiveJournal through...
http://hutta.com/lj/gender/?username=gwenzilla

Everyone over there is mad about it being wrong, too, although the women are angrier than the men (click the 'post comments' link to see discussion); it's been the other way around on bookBlog, hasn't it? (of course, LJ is all drama queens ;)

The new Genie still says i write like a girl on my blog...it's interesting that most of the non-fiction submissions are from women -- is the column after percentages the number of entries or total number of words submitted? It would be interesting to see both.

It's also interesting that men are pegged right so often under fiction while women aren't -- I wonder how much that has to do with our perceptions of how fiction is written being influenced by a largely male canon...

Gwen | September 16, 2003 12:58 PM

hmmm...this time i tried inserting long passages. i first inserted a letter (angry response to a reader's letter) that i had written to a local underground newspaper and the gender genie thought i was female. secondly, i inserted my last blog entry (an entry on modern art) and the gender genie thought that i was male! very interesting...being an artist myself, perhaps i perceive art with a male's mind? no, i doubt it, but who knows.

ana (prospective member!) | September 22, 2003 5:28 PM

Well, it HAD to be better than the previous version, right? If I remember correctly, the previous version was right about 50% of the time.

aussieintn | October 1, 2003 12:43 AM