Blog Gender
According to the Gender Analyzer, The Busybody is 96% likely to be male. That's funny. I'm used to being told that I'm heavily in touch with my feminine side.
Just as cooks pray for a good crop of young animals and fishermen for a good haul of fish, in the same way busybodies pray for a good crop of calamities or a good haul of difficulties that they, like cooks and fishermen, may always have something to fish out and butcher. (Plutarch, "On Being a Busybody")
According to the Gender Analyzer, The Busybody is 96% likely to be male. That's funny. I'm used to being told that I'm heavily in touch with my feminine side.
posted by Loren Rosson III @ 3/11/2009
2 Comments:
It got both Judy Redman and April DeConick wrong, and it scored Dorothy King at 50% though leaning on toward the female side, so I wouldn't worry too much about it. My guess is that academics are being thought of as "male" and shoe-shopping "female". Not a terrible assumption to make on the internet, but it's quite simply a wrong one to make.
Chris
When I checked, it said about my blog: We guess http://judyredman.wordpress.com/ is written by a man (50%), however it's quite gender neutral.
I am wondering why, when it scored 50%, they would guess that it's written by a man, rather than simply saying it's gender neutral.
It also got Suzanne McCarthy wrong, but not by as much as April. It was correct about Rachel Barenblat, though - perhaps because she includes more personal information on her blog.
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