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Those accuracy statistics are simply amazing!
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i just did a quick cut and paste job from information and announcements
wow- female
dodyskin-female
faldage-male
sjmaxq-girly girl girl
whitman- the gender genie has no idea 65/65
dxb-female
belligerentyouth-female
jmh-male
rhuby-male
how'd it do people?
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Exactly 50-50. Nice bit of research there, Dody. (I'm trying not to LMAO at the genie's problem figuring out WO'N)  oh -- and how does max rate "girly girl girl" when the other three are merely "females"?? Enquiring minds need to know...
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Oh, man--the "d" discussion just had me laughing; now, y'all're makin' my stomach hurt! Ow, ow!
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Ahhh, but aren't the results skewed by your choice of text?
Just askin'
Anyway it got me right... thanks for that as I had no idea how to do it!
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aren't the results skewed
The official results on the page itself as of my last were:
Am I right?
yes 28375 (50.64%)
no 27654 (49.36%)
56029 total responses since August 15, 2003
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Pity the genie doesn't include the category metrosexual: that might explain some of the confusion. 
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Hmm, I don't know about this algorithm. below are several text samples, some from famous works of literature, and the answer provided by the algorithm.
I like football. female
We came. We saw. We conquered. female
Give me liberty, or give me death. female
Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth on this land a new nation. "Uh, the Gender Genie has no idea!"
Shake it up baby, now. Twist and shout. You know you look so good. You really got me going now. female
[a long passage from "The Snows of Killmanjaro"] was entered female
Pride and Prejudice: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. male
Jane EyreThere was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question.
I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.
The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside, and with her darlings about her (for the time neither quarrelling nor crying) looked perfectly happy. Me, she had dispensed from joining the group; saying, “She regretted to be under the necessity of keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner— something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were—she really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy, little children.”
“What does Bessie say I have done?” I asked. male
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I took samples from information and announcements because people tend to write longer posts there overall and it was quicker to sample from one place. I called max a girly girl girl because he or she is.
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