From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Scouted: The Gender Genie Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 13:17:14 -0500
Jon Gabriel wrote: > > http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html > > Very cool, even though it got the two graphs I ran wrong.
My mom *just* got hold of this one.
Typical. I often get links from friends weeks after I've spotted them. In fact, someone sent me the WMD 404 error page today. :)
She used the same sort of technique for feeding it passages, i.e., cutting and pasting something already written.
She participates on a website with a lot of message boards. What she found was that it was more or less accurate depending on which board she'd posted the passage to -- a message on board for which she's an admin was more likely to come up male, while messages to another particular board were more likely to come up female.
Interesting. So from this we might be able to extrapolate that more authoritative language would be considered male?
(I'm guessing she got the link from someone's post there, actually.... I've fallen out of the habit of sending her cool links while she's using my computer. Make of that what you will.)>
That's the primary reason I started my blog. I got sick of trying to pass links around.
Glad to hear you're doing ok, by the way. Been insanely busy here, but my wife and I are keeping up with your progress. Hopefully you're not too uncomfortable.
My sister-in-law is having hers by appointment on the 10th.
Jon
Le Blog: http://zarq.livejournal.com
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