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i write like a man?

Posted on May 2, 2007 by Marie Kennedy

i dumped my blog post commenting on expertise in pictorial perception into the “gender genie,” and it thinks i am a man. what is surprising about this, you ask? i am a woman. here’s the metadata it logged from the text i put in:

gender genie screenshot
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now that my curiosity is piqued i am going to go read the article on how the algorithm was developed and how the authors decided which are distinctly “male” terms and which are “female.”

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  • Marie Kennedy is the Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. This blog is about organization, librarianship, and sometimes monkeys and/or bananas.
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