Do You Write Like a Man or a Woman?
Which is it?
Moshe Koppel of Bar-Ilan University in Isreal has developed a program that can tell the gender of the author by the structure and words used in the text. It is about 80% accurate.
You may yawn at this. The interesting thing is what it tells us about the way we interpret and represent the world. You might still yawn at this, unless you're a sociologist.
What may interest you, however, is that someone has written a fun little script that takes the basics of the basics from Koppel's theories and program and allows you to test some of your writing samples. Of course, keep in mind that, despite the fact that Koppel's program is 80% accurate, this simplified program probably does not run at such efficiency.
I guess we can now replace the taunt "He throws like a girl" with "He writes like a girl."
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