# What gender are you? Ask the Gender Genie to analyze your posts! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 17, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593 "2004-10-17T00:12:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593/21 "2004-10-17T03:21:08Z")
I just put in three livejournal entries and was male twice but was said to be female on the entry I was complaining about my weight and how I needed to diet. _Interesante_. ---
**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593/22 "2004-10-17T03:21:52Z")
Odd. I apparently post male (which is what I am) but when I posted my personal statement for medical school (the final draft and some earlier abandoned ideas) they turned out female. ---
**Author:** ![Wearia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wearia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wearia)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593/23 "2004-10-17T03:48:52Z")
its 3 for 3 with me (male). I entered 3 non-fiction works each over 500 words. Each was male by around 400 points. w00t. No gender confusion here. ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593/24 "2004-10-17T04:00:12Z")
Interesting! I turn out tending to male, probably because I use non-specific words like ‘everything’ and ‘something’ and, I’m sure, if I were to check enough posts - ‘thingy’. I say ‘thingy’ a lot, so it’s probably written into a post somewhere. 😉 Funnily enough, when I do those IQ type tests that check your thinking I’m always 50/50 male/female or logical/intuitive, so I guess my writing reflects that. -d. ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593/25 "2004-10-17T04:13:41Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Apparently the Gender Genie can’t decide on my gender. :dubious: Well, if you need any help in figuring it out, let me know. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593/26 "2004-10-17T04:30:04Z")
I submitted three reviews, all over 500 word…all definatly male… Well, I guess I’m male…who am I to argue with **Science** 😃 . ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593/27 "2004-10-17T04:42:40Z")
I fed it the opening paragraphs of three of [my](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mguitarelectrocute.html) [Staff] [url=http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mheavywater.html]Reports]([http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mbuzzingbulb.html](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mbuzzingbulb.html)). The results are as follows: #1: Female Score: 40 Male Score: 145 The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male! #2: Female Score: 85 Male Score: 100 The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male! #3: Female Score: 56 Male Score: 69 The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male! ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593/28 "2004-10-17T05:45:08Z")
It correctly guessed my livejournal posts as female, but when I submitted passages from my thesis it kept guessing that I was male. Interesting … ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593/29 "2004-10-17T07:02:39Z")
> [@](#): > > I fed it the opening paragraphs of three of my Staff] [url=http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mheavywater.html]Reports. Great! Now feed it some SD columns and we’ll get to the bottom of the “who is Cecil?” mystery. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593/30 "2004-10-17T07:35:06Z")
The last five columns are all identified as being written by a male, which we already knew. After all, his name is Cecil, not Cecily, and it’s a good thing too… [Cecily Adams](http://imdb.com/name/nm0010820/) died seven months ago. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593/31 "2004-10-17T07:40:15Z")
Well, I plugged in two posts where I was hitting on **Ogre** , plus a few more from a post about same-sex marriage. The results: Female Score: 1348 Male Score: 1518 The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male! So at least it’s not confused by that. ---
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593/32 "2004-10-17T08:02:35Z")
Um, this is bad. I’m getting constantly female scores from my blog posts, whereas my gf is getting male about 50% of the time. oop. ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593/33 "2004-10-17T08:32:08Z")
Mine was pretty accurate. However, the algorithm seems a little too basic to me. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593/34 "2004-10-17T09:48:51Z")
It’s interesting to see this pop up around here again. I plotted in a good chunk of my historical research writing – and it told me I am male. Which ain’t right, but it’s interesting, all the same. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593/35 "2004-10-17T10:47:15Z")
Last post - female post before that - male and the post before that - unknown :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593/36 "2004-10-17T11:43:57Z")
What success rate would be high enough to eliminate random chance? The thing is right about 60% of the time (I tried three passages and it was right twice). ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593/37 "2004-10-17T11:54:10Z")
Well, I submitted a couple of SDMB threads and it got both of those right. Then I submitted three blog entries and it got two of those correct and one it split at 50/50…good enough I guess. Gotta admit some of my journal entries might be a tough call. ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593/38 "2004-10-17T12:09:09Z")
I wasn’t real impressed with the figures so I went back and read the stats. on the Gender Genie crap…it had some figure above my results to the efect that the G/G was right 80% of the time. well, that didn’t sound right to me so… asshole that I am, I had to dig a little deeper. These are the actual results according to the raw figures, not the little biased bullshit that the site pops up for ya. Here ya go. submissions between August 15 and September 13, 2003 correct 51.47% 172927 incorrect 48.53% 163058 Total 335985 About like flipping a coin wouldn’t ya say? If you go back and read each stat you’ll see that it simply guesses MALE more times than it does female. as a result it gets a biased result showing apprx 80% correct on the male participants but in some cases as low as 20% on the female cases. These results vary of course depending on the category but not by too much. In other words: **It’s Bullshit!** :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593/39 "2004-10-17T12:09:56Z")
I was told I’m male on an Animal Farm spoof and a blog entry, but female on a short story. At least one of them was right. **Marley** , apparently it’s suppossed to be right 80% of the time, but it’s own stats show it to be at about 63%. And I agree with **Keapon** , it does seem rather simplistic. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593/40 "2004-10-17T12:14:06Z")
> [@Jayn\_Newell](#): > > **Marley** , apparently it’s suppossed to be right 80% of the time, but it’s own stats show it to be at about 63%. I did read the stats after guessing. And the assignment of ‘gender points’ to certain words - most of them pretty common - seemed random. It’s clearly not as good as it’s supposed to be. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-gender-are-you-ask-the-gender-genie-to-analyze-your-posts/269593.md?page=3)