{"id":143,"date":"2007-01-02T02:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2007-01-02T02:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-02T02:49:00","slug":"does-your-blog-have-a-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/02\/does-your-blog-have-a-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Your Blog Have a Gender?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/lancerlord.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/of-gender-genie.html\"><span onclick=\"BLOG_clickHandler(this)\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Lancerlord<\/span><\/a> shares information about The Gender Genie.  Paste a chunk of text from your blog into the Gender Genie, and it will make an educated guess as to whether the chunk was written by a male or female.<\/p>\n<p>How does it work?  The site says&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-style: italic;\"><p>Inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/08\/10\/magazine\/10WWLN.html?ex=1061784000&#038;en=843e4c97d49a9f82&amp;ei=5070\">an article<\/a> in The New York Times Magazine, the Gender Genie uses a simplified version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.biu.ac.il\/%7Ekoppel\/papers\/male-female-text-final.pdf\">an algorithm<\/a> developed by Moshe Koppel, Bar-<span onclick=\"BLOG_clickHandler(this)\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Ilan<\/span> University in Israel, and <span onclick=\"BLOG_clickHandler(this)\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Shlomo<\/span> <span onclick=\"BLOG_clickHandler(this)\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">Argamon<\/span>, Illinois Institute of Technology, to predict the gender of an author.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I tried it with a short entry that was judged far more feminine than masculine. Then I read that it works best on text with 500 or more words, so I plunked in a larger text and that was much more masculine than <span onclick=\"BLOG_clickHandler(this)\" class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">feminine<\/span>.  <span onclick=\"BLOG_clickHandler(this)\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">Dej\u00e1<\/span> <span onclick=\"BLOG_clickHandler(this)\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_6\">vu<\/span>!  Way back in college, the professional inventories I took listed me as scoring similarly as male teachers who liked their jobs, but not female teachers who did.  Whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Give it a try.  Let us know how it did with your writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Lancerlord shares information about The Gender Genie. Paste a chunk of text from your blog into the Gender Genie, and it will make an educated guess as to whether the chunk was written by a male or female.<\/p>\n<p>How does it work? The site says&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by an article in The New York Times [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}