Saturday, December 20, 2003

Do you write like a girl?

This online text gender analysis tool says it can accurately predict 80 percent of the time, whether the gender of a writer is male or female.

I tried it, first with a passage from my recently-completed novel "Make Nice." Strangely, this passage rated a "Female Score" of 1378 and a "Male Score" of 1399. Pretty close, but it had correctly identified the author as male.

So what would it do with my faux-lesbian porn? I gave it a passage from my short story "How I Adore You," an all-lezzie erotic story. (That passage is X-rated.) Ha, that got a "Female Score" of 3775 and a "Male Score" of only 2497, which meant I had successfully fooled it into thinking I was a lesbian. Now I can rest.

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