Will Murray discovers "an interesting gizmo that purports to be able to guess the gender of a writer based on a sample of text" and learns that he writes like a man, which is appropriate, in that he is one. He then notes the following:
"To further test this I took a few passages from Phoebe’s blog and fed them in. Having looked at her passport, I can verify that she is, in fact, female. The gizmo however pegged her as male with a high degree of confidence. Thus, I conclude its methods are malarkey."
The question remains: Does this gizmo assume, with a high degree of confidence, that I am male, or does it assume that I am a highly confident male?
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Today I am a man
Posted by Phoebe Maltz Bovy at Tuesday, September 14, 2004
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2 comments:
Uh, thanks.
If it's any comfort, I analyzed one of my big philosophical essays on abortion (which, like everything I write, is slightly arrogant, so I thought I'd surely be termed a male), but I just barely made the cutoff.
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