Politics: Onward from New Hampshire

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
So you're a Lutheran?

You ARE from Minnesota, aren't you?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by bilmore
You ARE from Minnesota, aren't you?

Uh-oh. Are you and Ty gonna hook up?




Gavin, what hath thou wrought?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Here's an interesting site: Gender Genie

It does textual analysis to predict whether the author is male or female. I'm not sure it works, though, because I plugged in some of Not Me's longer recent posts, and it says she's a he:

• Female Score: 371
  Male Score: 1180
  
  The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Back to the drawing board, I guess.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Here's an interesting site: Gender Genie

It does textual analysis to predict whether the author is male or female. I'm not sure it works, though, because I plugged in some of Not Me's longer recent posts, and it says she's a he:

• Female Score: 371
  Male Score: 1180
  
  The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

Back to the drawing board, I guess.

No it works!
I put in my friend's suicide post, and:

Female Score: 488
Male Score: 468

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

So it got me, but also props to me for sounding almost like a guy.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
No it works!
I put in my friend's suicide post, and:

Female Score: 488
Male Score: 468

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female!

So it got me, but also props to me for sounding almost like a guy.

Coltrane was right, I'm a guy. I put in my question about VT's position. May not have been long enough to analyze properly.

[Dave]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop

The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!
Back to the drawing board, I guess.

Perhaps extensive time spent listening to the Howard Stern Show influenced the word selection of the Not Male sufficiently to skew the analysis.

Speaking of which, it's amusing that Clear Channel is cutting back on Howard, seeing how much money they've made off his particular brand of offensive crap. Is this favoring of morality over money just an election year thing? Sucks to be a R when you've got to choose between the two.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Dave
Speaking of which, it's amusing that Clear Channel is cutting back on Howard, seeing how much money they've made off his particular brand of offensive crap. Is this favoring of morality over money just an election year thing? Sucks to be a R when you've got to choose between the two.

At least we can take comfort in the fact that they are no longer making money off him.

[Dave]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
No it works!

"I like bacon." 100% female.
"Bacon tastes good." 100% male.

Weird that.

ETA: Sorry, wrong board. How about Kerry winning three more states. Meaningless or what?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
May not have been long enough to analyze properly.

This is a good point. The post I picked, while long, was only about 300+ words, and the site says it works best on 500 words on more. So I pasted in text from a whole bunch of Not Me post, more than 1100 words before I got bored with this. It stills says she's a man. So it definitely must be broken -- that's the only possible explanation.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
This is a good point. The post I picked, while long, was only about 300+ words, and the site says it works best on 500 words on more. So I pasted in text from a whole bunch of Not Me post, more than 1100 words before I got bored with this. It stills says she's a man. So it definitely must be broken -- that's the only possible explanation.

Yeah, broken.

Female Score: 210
Male Score: 199


The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage [Ty's, above] is: female!

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: male!

I am a very assertive female who is good at science and math. My thought patters are very analytical and in that sense, I am not the typical female so it doesn't surprise me that without seeing me in person, my writing style comes across as more male. Most women I know take pride in their lack of mathamatical ability as if it is cute to be female and not good at math. I take pride on having accomplished so much in areas that females have historically shunned.

I am sure whomever developed that software based it on stereotypes and chose the stereotype that assertive language or a more analytical writing style was more likely to come from a male.

The only way to make some sort of prediction like that is to base it on a stereotype. That is, afterall, what stereotypes are - descriptions of the averge or likely or predominant characteristic in a group. I definitely don't fit the stereotype for women in my thinking patterns.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Not Me
I am a very assertive female who is good at science and math.

Man + man = polygamy?

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage [Ty's, above] is: female!

Doesn't surprise me that left-wing males come across as somewhere inbetween genders.

This link explains the stereotypes the Gender Genie's algorithm is based on.

http://www.nature.com/nsu/030714/030714-13.html

BTW - why so much interest in everyone's genders?

[Skeks in the city]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield

[Why does a man fuck a woman in the ass, you ask?] Because he can. Ever fuck the same person for a long time. It can get boring.

Doi you like getting shit on your dick, or do you just try to ignore the shit?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Skeks in the city



Doi you like getting shit on your dick, or do you just try to ignore the shit?

He goes for the hippy chicks. Lots of granola. Environmentally friendly, etc.

Last edited by ltl/fb on 02-26-2004 at 09:57 PM