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I entered five passages each from an online experiment in writing that I am participating in. I'm 4 parts female, 1 part male. The other female participant is also 4 parts female, 1 part male. The action dude writer is 3 parts male, 2 parts female. The other male writer is 4 parts male, 1 part female. That almost meets the 80% projected accuracy, dunnit?
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almost meets the 80% projected accuracy
There's so much uncertainty in the on-line version.
A) We have to count on people being honest when they tell the Genie whether it was right.
2) It's incredibly easy to fake the Genie out once you learn the algorithm.
A) might even out but 2) is a real concern and Þ), which went without saying, is going to skew the results all by its lonesome.
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Was the emphasis on [I to indicate that the assessment of my sex was made by you, rather than by the website? Every passage of text I entered had me listed as female. I couldn't get it to give as a result, "girly girl girl", so I'm guessing that was an embellishment on your part.
I was just highlighting ( mm, love the look of that word) the keywords the I thought the genie used. Looking closer at the website ( or more truthfully, reading Faldages explanation) I see I highlighted (liking that more and more, all those consonants, like 'stretch') the wrong things, it should go like this
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.
'k? sorry max
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I'm astonished just how close the thing comes to defining "one-half." Today it gives the accuracy percentages as 50.01% correct, 49.99% incorrect.
"Blame the scientists. I didn't write the algorithm!"
8/31/03
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Finally got around to this, AnnaS...I put in some lyrics from my *baseball song: Well, the first time I got my fingers on that good ol' cowhide,
The first time that I swang a Louisville,
I knew why I was put here,
What my life was all about,
Yeah, at seven, I was sure of every thrill!Female.  Yeah, I know girls play baseball, but.
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Wunnerful!  First two stanzas of Barb-Wire Bill by Robert Service: At dawn of day the white land lay all gruesome-like and grim,
When Bill Mc'Gee he says to me: "We've got to do it, Jim.
We've got to make Fort Liard quick. I know the river's bad,
But, oh! the little woman's sick . . . why! don't you savvy, lad?"
And me! Well, yes, I must confess it wasn't hard to see
Their little family group of two would soon be one of three.
And so I answered, careless-like: "Why, Bill! you don't suppose
I'm scared of that there `babbling brook'? Whatever you say -- goes."
A real live man was Barb-wire Bill, with insides copper-lined;
For "barb-wire" was the brand of "hooch" to which he most inclined.
They knew him far; his igloos are on Kittiegazuit strand.
They knew him well, the tribes who dwell within the Barren Land.
From Koyokuk to Kuskoquim his fame was everywhere;
And he did love, all life above, that little Julie Claire,
The lithe, white slave-girl he had bought for seven hundred skins,
And taken to his wickiup to make his moccasins.Female. (full poem text here: http://makeashorterlink.com/?I2F7323C5) [Edit: and with this sample I had the pleasure of driving the "no" quotient over 50%! ]
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It is rather a lot far-fetched.
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I fed it KJV Genesis chap 1 and Ruth chap 1. Male and Female, respectively. FWIW
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