# The Gender Genie -- Tells your gender by your writings **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 21, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574 "2003-08-21T02:47:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Super\_Gnat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Super\_Gnat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Gnat)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/1 "2003-08-21T02:47:36Z")
Well, actually it seems to be more wrong than right, but better than chance. It uses an algorithm to guess what gender a person is from a block of text. It worked both times I put text in. Next I’ll try this post so far. Got it right again! Weird, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Super\_Gnat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Super\_Gnat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Gnat)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/2 "2003-08-21T03:14:36Z")
Of course, I just put in **Polycarp** ’s OP from the “Gay Sex and the Bible” thread and it told me that was female too. Mebbe it always says female or something. . . ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/3 "2003-08-21T03:14:40Z")
Three passages from my webpage, two excerpts from stories I’m writing, and five recents posts by me. That’s 10 writing samples. Results: 7 female, 3 male. Incidentally, chance would be right and wrong equally. So if it’s more wrong than right, it can’t be better than chance. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/4 "2003-08-21T03:16:39Z")
Uhhh…is there suppossed to be a link to this place somewhere, or do i gots to find it myself? ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/5 "2003-08-21T03:18:29Z")
[http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html](http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html) More like Gender Can’t-Tell-the-Difference-Betweenie if you ask me! ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/6 "2003-08-21T03:19:02Z")
I think [this](http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html) is it. ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/7 "2003-08-21T03:23:09Z")
It picked female again…although this time it was right. [sub]Sorry for the simultpost, **Achernar**.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/8 "2003-08-21T03:26:31Z")
url=http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=205365]This OP by me came out female. Buzz! It says 80% but it’s under 50% right now. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/9 "2003-08-21T03:26:35Z")
I typed in “I have a penis”, and it correctly guessed that I’m male. But it did the same for “I have a uterus”, so there’s more to it than just keywords. Course, the preceding paragraph caused it to guess female… ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/10 "2003-08-21T03:26:43Z")
In the interest of dispelling myth (isn’t that what Straight Dope is all about?) I typed in “I sure would like to fuck some hot chick tonight!” (Excuse my French…) …said I was female. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/11 "2003-08-21T03:35:27Z")
It (correctly) guessed that I’m female three times out of five. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/12 "2003-08-21T03:40:53Z")
Ya know… if it said female EVERY time, it would be right 51% of the time… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/13 "2003-08-21T03:42:31Z")
I threw in my last report, and it says that I’m male. Woohoo! ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/14 "2003-08-21T03:43:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by if6was9 \* > \*\*In the interest of dispelling myth (isn’t that what Straight Dope is all about?) I typed in “I sure would like to fuck some hot chick tonight!” (Excuse my French…) > > …said I was female. :rolleyes: \*\* Women can fuck women, too, you know ;). [This](http://www.thespark.com/gendertest/) is another guess my gender geared site,. (It’s a four-page quiz from [www.thespark.com](http://www.thespark.com)). It also seems to pick female every time. With my family it got 2 out of 3; it said that my father was a woman…with 80% certainty! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/15 "2003-08-21T03:48:44Z")
Skinner, you’re so bad! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/16 "2003-08-21T03:55:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by if6was9 \* > \*\*In the interest of dispelling myth (isn’t that what Straight Dope is all about?) I typed in “I sure would like to fuck some hot chick tonight!” (Excuse my French…) > > …said I was female. :rolleyes: \*\* Great minds think alike! Purely for the interests of research, I typed in “I want to get my dick wet with some busty bombshell” and it came up female. Guess one of those rocket scientists need to put in some code like: IF “my dick” THEN gender=male I’m the guy who always entered FUK for my initials when I got a high score on a video game :o ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/17 "2003-08-21T03:58:48Z")
Entered a passage from George Eliot’s “The Mill on the Floss.” Brace yourselves: George was a female. Happy ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/18 "2003-08-21T04:06:44Z")
I put in my favorite paragraph from my diss prospectus and it thought I was a boy (I’m not). Alas! ---
**Author:** ![Tanaqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Tanaqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanaqui)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/19 "2003-08-21T04:09:08Z")
I tried out about 10 various pieces of writing and it guessed I was female every time (which is correct.) ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574/20 "2003-08-21T04:12:36Z")
Ok, I put in 5 paragraphs independently, and it only identified one as being written by a female. What does this MEAN? I need my tinfoil feminism hat. . is this why I got a decent fellowship from the anonymous writing sample? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gender-genie-tells-your-gender-by-your-writings/196574.md?page=2)