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Over at GenderAnalyzer you enter your URL and it determines of your website is written primarily by a man or a woman. It said this blog fit their profile for a man by 80%.
Am I disappointed that I fit their profile so closely. Hmm...
I wonder what my friend over at SDA Gender Justice will think of this.
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Mine says it's 65% it's sure that it's written by a woman. Hmm, I'm not sure if I should be happy about that or nor...or if I should even care. Both Leslie's and Lennox's blogs are neutral.
Posted by: Darlene | January 28, 2009 at 10:17 AM
I think neutral is good. I probably means that their little algorithm is picking up less gender specific language. But it does beg the question how they can be so accurate.
Posted by: Ryan Bell | January 28, 2009 at 10:21 AM
I got a 59%, enough for it to guess I might be a man.
Posted by: Bill Cork | January 28, 2009 at 10:44 AM
But I followed up with something else. A blog, by definition, is a log of what you've read elsewhere on the web. So I include a lot of quotes from other articles. So I tried some long articles I've written from my webpage. Those got a 74-85%.
Posted by: Bill Cork | January 28, 2009 at 10:48 AM
Very interesting. Mine was 57% sure it was written by a male, but said it was quite gender neutral. So, hooray for me!
Posted by: Shawn Brace | January 28, 2009 at 07:43 PM
The whole idea screams gender essentialism. Ehh, I'll try it on all three blogs I manage and see what shows up.
(1) "We guess http://www.sdagenderjustice.wordpress.com is written by a woman (58%), however it's quite gender neutral."
(2) "We think http://www.dannyandtrisha.wordpress.com is written by a woman (83%)."
(3) "We guess http://www.adventistwomenearth.wordpress.com is written by a man (60%), however it's quite gender neutral."
I co-edit these sites.
(4) "We think http://www.ctr4process.org is written by a man (65%)."
(5) "We think http://www.adventistwomenscenter.org is written by a man (87%)."
Seems my results are all over the place. =)
Posted by: Trisha | January 29, 2009 at 09:07 PM
Mine is 54% written by a woman. Interesting.
Posted by: Hanan Merrill | January 30, 2009 at 10:36 AM
Actually, as of today http://lesliefoster.blogspot.com/ comes out leaning 61% in the female direction and http://365experiment.blogspot.com/ came out as gender neutral - chuckle - I've been getting the same results all my life.
Posted by: Leslie Foster | February 01, 2009 at 10:49 AM
I write like a girl!
I ran this on my novel's blog and it came up strongly female. As a couple of the pieces on it have been contributed by female writing, I thought they might be weighting it that way. But when I analysed piece-by-piece, the pieces I had written came up more strongly female than the pieces actually written by the ladies.
As someone who writes regularly, I am intrigued.
Posted by: Nathan | February 10, 2009 at 03:32 PM