I ran this on some messages for a self-help list I subscribe to. I found that in almost every case, it resolved the messages as female. This list is characteristic in that little confrontation occurs between members, even when a post is decidely aggressive. However, a sampling of the Brin list was consistent with the genie index was detecting. I don't really know what this means, but one could posit that there is a relationship between confrontation and a lists "masculinity".
This could be an interesting metric for Nick's research into Internet Communication - perhaps creating a confrontation index based upon a lists masculinity or feminity tendencies. Nerd From Hell > -----Original Message----- > From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 11:17 AM > To: Killer Bs Discussion > Subject: Re: Scouted: The Gender Genie > > > 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. > > 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. > > (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.) > > Julia > _______________________________________________ > http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l > _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
