Quote:it predicts the gender correctly about 60 to 70 percent of the time.

Is that all that impressive since it is 50-50 to begin with?

Overall, it marked me female, but I did it 7 times and three of them, they concluded I was male.

(July 2, 2012 at 4:34 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Is that all that impressive since it is 50-50 to begin with?

Yeah, not really impressive, but still I find it a little interesting that a male writer may use certain words more frequently than a female writer (and vice versa).

I've been known to use "fuck" far more than most of the women.

Me too, Min. Adrian is going to be very disappointed. It's a boy.

Holy shit, I'm a transexual android!

meh

(July 3, 2012 at 1:32 am)Rayaan Wrote:

(July 2, 2012 at 4:34 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Is that all that impressive since it is 50-50 to begin with?

Yeah, not really impressive, but still I find it a little interesting that a male writer may use certain words more frequently than a female writer (and vice versa).

That's not entirely correct. I showed Hovik the generator and it confused him. Although he isn't a sociolinguist, he does know that attributing certain words to genders isn't correct. It is true that certain genders tend to use certain language, but word-for-word (especially function words) doesn't make sense.