Analysis

Masculine Keywords

Feminine Keywords

[the]

61

x

+17

=

1037

[with]

9

x

-14

=

-126

[a] or [an]

28

x

+6

=

168

[‘s] or [s’]

7

x

-5

=

-35

[some]

3

x

+6

=

18

[possessive pronoun]

19

x

-3

=

-57

[number]

99

x

+5

=

495

[for]

11

x

-4

=

-44

[it]

31

x

+2

=

62

[not] or [n’t]

24

x

-4

=

-96

based on the content of this page, before i posted this entry, gender genie thinks i’m male. (i’m not.) the ton of numbers in the cataloging books post skew things, but i say ‘the’ and ‘a’ a lot more than ‘with’ or ‘for’ all the same.

i’m trying random other samples of things i’ve written but i haven’t found anything it recognises as female at all yet.

update: ok, i tried a couple of rambling email messages i’d written and it identified them as female. i also tried two messages written by my mum, two messages written by my dad and two messages written by my boyfriend. we’re all female apparently. which makes for an interesting family life.

the original article in nature says:

These differing styles have previously been called ‘informational’ and ‘involved’, respectively.

it seems to me that they were better left labelled so. it’s not really surprising that personal emails are ‘involved’ and website content is ‘informational’.

[found via the keyboard biologist]