I was just doing a spot of vague internet surfing and I found the Gender Guesser which I thought was pretty amusing - basically some researchers came up with a program that profiles you based on a segment of original text and attempts to discern your gender.
Thought it might be interesting!
Haha according to this I write like a man. I checked my blog posts and several previous essays. They all claim I am male....
ReplyDeleteThis is a really interesting find though. I love these kinds of things.
The idea that you can program technology to calculate a person is optimistic at best. There are too many idiosyncrasies of the human mind to allow all (or even most) personality (gender/race/age etc) traits to be digitalised in one system allowing it to 'guess' at personal attributes. They do say that it's only 60-70% accurate but that's still a large claim over a shot in the dark...
Though, having said all that I would love to see something like this perfected. The science and research that would go into such a project would be fascinating! I look forward to their future work on age and nationality.