Like the Gender Genie, I'm still really curious what words it is marking as "masculine" - or more to the point, what particularly is "unfeminine" about these words.
I have a slightly different read on it...58% masculine to me doesn't say unfeminine, because it reads as 58-42 masculine feminine.
In other words, unlike the gender genie, this one is placing you on a continuum rather than pegging you as one or the other. So I would read that analysis as: it's not that you're particularly unfeminine as much as that you are neither overly masculine or feminine, and err slightly to the masculine direction.
To that extent i prefer this tool to the Gender Genie, because it seems to create a more contextulized result. But i mean c'mon...how accurate can we really expect a script to be when we can't even program one to pass a Turing test? Human communication is about nuance, which is something that simply doesn't fit into binary logic.
I have a slightly different read on it...58% masculine to me doesn't say unfeminine, because it reads as 58-42 masculine feminine.
I didn't mean that.. It's saying I use more "masculine" words than I do "feminine" ones (in the given sample), and I'm curious which words are considered which.
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Date: Sep. 18th, 2003 04:31 pm (UTC)From:In other words, unlike the gender genie, this one is placing you on a continuum rather than pegging you as one or the other. So I would read that analysis as: it's not that you're particularly unfeminine as much as that you are neither overly masculine or feminine, and err slightly to the masculine direction.
To that extent i prefer this tool to the Gender Genie, because it seems to create a more contextulized result. But i mean c'mon...how accurate can we really expect a script to be when we can't even program one to pass a Turing test? Human communication is about nuance, which is something that simply doesn't fit into binary logic.
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Date: Sep. 18th, 2003 07:05 pm (UTC)From:I didn't mean that.. It's saying I use more "masculine" words than I do "feminine" ones (in the given sample), and I'm curious which words are considered which.