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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Death By I Write Like A Girl Syndrome



I stumbled onto this site, which offers a test of text to determine the gender of the author.

The categories are fiction, non-fiction, and blog entry.

I entered an entire blog entry (Dances with Squirrels), an excerpt, and a few sentences randomly generated from my own head. My kids shouted things to type in and even [My Attorney] played.

Our results? Ok, first of all this test is surely flawed. Despite the rigorous science behind its generation, it's just wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrongity wrong wrong.

[My Attorney] -- Female.

The Girl -- Female.

The Boy -- Male.

Me. The Dad. Your bloggist. A manly man type man of a man. -- Female.