The gender genie again, damnit

[ritaxis]

Every so often somebody comes trolling around with a link to the Gender Genie.

(It's here)

Here's my results. I got bored after six pieces of fiction I wrote.

Female Score: 7677
Male Score: 6376

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

Female Score: 6887
Male Score: 7765

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Female Score: 186588
Male Score: 154431

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

Female Score: 4760
Male Score: 6158

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Female Score: 16813
Male Score: 16869

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Female Score: 15482
Male Score: 15121

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

Notice, um, the result is? 50%. A quack mentalist could do better than that looking at the wear on my eraser.

Comments

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

You'd think so, but I never write scientific papers and I get 50/50 too.`The algorithm for this one is probably as good as it gets: they just study the frequency of certain words, and byu certain words I mean stuff like "the" and "and:" the only theoretical mumbojumbo they come up with is after the fact, having to do with concreteness and something else.

This time I was lead to it because it was tossed off casually as support for some obscure point being made about science fiction being properly a man's field. Along with some crap about the hardness of the science fiction the person prefers and there being "a reason why engineers are mostly male." (another poster said, trenchantly:"there is, and it's male engineers.")

Not to mention that the "hardness" of the "hard science fiction" I come across seems rather limp to me, often. They might get their angle of momentum right, but they don't know beans about biology, often.