Saturday, December 06, 2008  Is your blog written by a man or
woman?  Apparently, there is a 75% chance that my blog was
written by a man, according to the Gender Analyzer (Hat tip:
TaxProf blog) which is a website where you put in your blog URL
and it uses Artificial Intelligence to determine if a homepage
is written by a man or woman. It doesn't seem too accurate as it
asked if it guessed my sex correctly and when I clicked on "no,"
it showed stats indicating that 46% of the time, the Gender
Analyzer was inaccurate. That's no better than chance.  I read
on another blog by a tax blogger who was female that her sex was
also guessed incorrectly. I wonder if the Gender Analyzer
stereotypes about what the various sexes should write about and
if you do not follow suit, it messes up. This particular blogger
theorized that perhaps it gets confused by gender neutral names
but what part of Dr. Helen sounds like a guy? I've never met a
male Helen, have you?  Anyway, you can go here for fun and put
in your URL to see i