I am sure I have written about this before, maybe I dreamt I had, oh who knows….
Anyway, Splintered kindly emailed me this. And because I am not doing that much, ok lazing around the place busy doing nowt, I had a go at this extremely precise and scientific ‘analyzer’ of gender. Yes, further into the realms of cod- pseudo-science.
And yes, they hazard a scientific guess, harpymarx.wordpress.com is written by a man (57%), however it’s quite gender neutral. Now I would sure love to know how they come to these conclusions, how do they predict etc. based on probability. In the blurb says this:
It uses Artificial Intelligence to determine if a homepage is written by a man or woman. Behind the scene, a text classifier hosted over at uClassify.com has been trained on 11000 blogs written by men and women. In our lab it seems to works pretty well, we want to see how it performs on the web! We hope you like it!
A text classifier? Does that mean categorising gender specific language/words? Interesting….
Oh, and btw Splintered, we think http://splinteredsunrise.wordpress.com is written by a man (66%).
I know I know it is a bit of fun but…..
Update: Ha! Knew I had written about this…and I have. Though the previous time it was “Typealyzer” and the results were that Harpymarx was 77% certain to be written by a male “scientist” at high school level. Wow…and now only 57% certain to be written by a bloke.
According to the Gender Anlyser (ooh, painful) I’m 76% all man, honey, and I got the balls to prove it. (OK, they’re just higher up.) Perhaps I should simper more.
That’s ANALYSER!!! And it does.
Well, it is a load of cod-science…
It must be gender-specific keywords, or sentence structure or something. Anyway, it says barackobama.com is written by a woman, so it can’t be that specific…
Mine was male (70%). As I am indeed a man, this means it must be completely reliable and scientifically sound. Or, er, perhaps not.
The advert on the page told me there are thousands of single men in Caerphilly. It is evidently not yet smart enough to match advertising to the ‘scientific’ results.
Alex, Deffo does mean it is rigorous, reliable and scientifically sound…And Father Xmas is real…
Yeah. He wrote Das Kapital.