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.
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.
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.
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.
Well, if you need any help in figuring it out, let me know.
I submitted three reviews, all over 500 word…all definatly male…
Well, I guess I’m male…who am I to argue with Science 
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I fed it the opening paragraphs of three of my [Staff] [url=http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mheavywater.html]Reports](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!
It correctly guessed my livejournal posts as female, but when I submitted passages from my thesis it kept guessing that I was male. Interesting …
Great! Now feed it some SD columns and we’ll get to the bottom of the “who is Cecil?” mystery.
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 died seven months ago.
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.
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.
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Mine was pretty accurate. However, the algorithm seems a little too basic to me.
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. 
Last post - female
post before that - male
and the post before that - unknown
:dubious:
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).
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.
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:
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.
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.