I Am Seventy Percent Man
As a non-man who is nevertheless quite interested in the pursuit of manliness, I was interested to try the Genderanalyzer—which “uses Artificial Intelligence to determine if a homepage is written by a man or woman.” Last time I plugged the Sexist into the Genderanalyzer, it told me I wrote like a dude. I basked for several seconds in the news, believing that I had fooled this widget through my progressive, gender-bending style of blogging. Then I plugged Danielle Steele into the analyzer. Turns out she writes like a dude, too.
Now, it looks like this ye olde online gender identity crystal ball is beginning to get rather specific. The analyzer—which I’m not convinced isn’t entirely bogus—can now determine the dudeliness of your blog down to the percentage point. Just how manly am I?
We think http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist is written by a man (70%).
Seventy percent man. Not bad! But how does Danielle stand?
We think http://daniellesteel.net/blog/index.php is written by a man (71%).
It is with great shame that I must submit to the incontrovertible fact that Danielle Steel is more of a man than I am.
“Man Down” by wili-hybrid.
Comments
Leave a Reply
You can follow any responses to this entry through its comments RSS feed.
Blogs Linking to this Article
-
Linked From: November 21st, 2008» Blog Archive » I’m a Man (more or less)
2:59 pm[...] of the hat to The Sexist for the [...]
10:09 am
The Genderanalyzer is whack. It says I’m 65% man but getting married and having a kid have sapped much more than 35% of my manliness.
10:27 am
Methinks Genderanalyzer is a wee bit biased: We think http://www.genderanalyzer.com/ is written by a man (85%).
1:47 pm
According to the sidebar poll, people reported “correct” results only 53% of the time, compared to 47% who reported “no”… falling just short of statistical significance.
2:16 pm
Genderanalyzer sucks!