The Gender Genie
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lijability: copy & paste some blogposts in The Gender Genie and figure out whether they are written by a male or a female.
First try: I copy and paste my latest post.
Female score: 574
Male score: 570
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is female.
So far so good. But the entry I put in to genie was only 372 words long and the genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.
Second try: I add another longer post I've written recently. With 758 words The Gender Genie has something to work on.
Female score: 1017
Male score: 1174
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is male.
Checking out the keywords that let The Gender genie come to this conclusion, I learn one is more masculine when one doesn't talk about him- or herself. My instinct tells me this is terribly stereotypical and maybe even sexist.
lijability: copy & paste some blogposts in The Gender Genie and figure out whether they are written by a male or a female.First try: I copy and paste my latest post.
Female score: 574
Male score: 570
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is female.
So far so good. But the entry I put in to genie was only 372 words long and the genie works best on texts of more than 500 words.
Second try: I add another longer post I've written recently. With 758 words The Gender Genie has something to work on.
Female score: 1017
Male score: 1174
The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is male.
Checking out the keywords that let The Gender genie come to this conclusion, I learn one is more masculine when one doesn't talk about him- or herself. My instinct tells me this is terribly stereotypical and maybe even sexist.
