Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Tripping Up the Gender Analyzer

There is this site that takes the content of a blog and "uses Artificial Intelligence to determine if a homepage is written by a man or woman."
The results?
"We think http://thruaglassdrkly.blogspot.com/ is written by a man (63%)."

Wrong, AI, I am definitely a woman. Maybe it's the high concentration of engineer-speak in my writing. My friend Laura comes up as a woman on hers. Maybe she uses more feeling-oriented language.

5 comments:

Laura Springer said...

I think the poetry balances out the theologizing just enough to scooch me to 54%

Summer said...

I got a 99% women written site.... lol - i guess i'm overly girly!

http://genderanalyzer.com/?url=www.summerlynnsmith.blogspot.com

Summer said...

Thanks for the comment... I hug the teens more than I ever have now!!! Can't get enough of those lil rascals!!

Susan said...

When I plugged in my site, the results were:

We guess http://philosophicalpastor.wordpress.com is written by a man (60%), however it's quite gender neutral

hee hee. I feel so sneaky!

Ann said...

Susan,
It probably just assumes that anyone who is a pastor (or an engineer) is a man. This says something about the AI's gender bias. Interesting.