The Gender Genie (related to previous post)

[frameofmind6]

Okay, so the Gender Genie is working again (this is the algorithm upon which the Blogalyser's gender measurment was based), so I've been doing a bit of investigating. Here's a summary of my results:

My Writing
Playing With Fire, Ch 1: Female
Missing in Action, Ch 22: Male
Eight to Tango: Female
Fortune's Fool, Ch 7: Female
Kaede's Story: Female
Last 20 LJ entries: Male

Nicholas Sparks's Writing
Autobiography (from his website): Female
Excerpt from Three Weeks with my Brother: Male

John Grisham's Writing
Excerpt from Runaway Jury: Male

Just for the sake of clarity, this measure seems to be based on counting the number of so called "masculine keywords" and "feminine keywords" as they appear in the piece, and comparing their respective point values (not sure where the point values came from, exactly -- I found a couple of articles on the theory behind all of this, but I haven't read them yet) to the overall word count. Here are the lists of masculine and feminine keywords (the numbers in the first colum seem to be the point values for each word, the second column the frequency of each word in a given sample, and the third column the number of points total for for the sample. You can ignore the second and third columns here, because they relate to the results of one particular test): 

[Can't include the table at the moment -- my comp is having issues. I'll try to past it in here later...]

Not sure exactly what to take away from all of this. It seems to be pretty accurate with respect to fiction writing (based on this small sample) -- I really expected Nicholas Sparks to register as female because he's such a sap (I hate Nicholas Sparks. He's the bane of my existence...), but he didn't (at least not based on his fiction style). The only fiction excerpt I was actually able to trick it with was the last chapter of my story MIA, which is set in WWII, and the last chapter involves a lot of action. But then I tried Eight to Tango -- which is more on the romantic comedy side, but still involves a lot of action in the sense of having a lot of people moving around and doing physical things (as opposed to a lot of more sedintary introspective type writing) -- and that one registered as female. Then again, Knittingknots kept registering as male (see her reply to my last entry) -- so who knows how that fits in...

(*throws up hands*) I give up.

Well...not completely. I still wanna read those articles and find out more about the background work... (*grin*)