Male or Female

#language#classification

Take any piece of fiction and do the following:

  1. Count the number of words in the document.
  2. For each appearance in the document of the following words ADD the number of points indicated:
  • 'the' (17)
  • 'a' (6)
  • 'some' (6)
  • any number, written in digits or in words (5)
  • 'it' (2)
  1. For each appearance in the document of the following words SUBTRACT the number of points indicated:
  • 'with' (14)
  • possessives, ending in 's' (5)
  • possessive pronouns, such as 'mine', 'yours', 'his', 'hers', (3)
  • 'for' (4)
  • 'not' or any word ending with 'n't' (4)
  1. If the total score (after adding and subtracting as indicated) is greater than the total number of words in the document, then the author of the document is probably a male. Otherwise, the author is probably a female. Pasted from <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/10/magazine/10wwln-test.html?ex=1225861200&en=29aa0b7ae4f89f74&ei=5070>  More Info http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E7D71E3EF933A2575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

Words to watch

FEMALE: [with] [if] [not] [where] [be] [when] [your] [her] [we] [should] [she] [and] [me] [myself] [hers] [was] [to]

MALE: [around] [what] [more] [are] [as] [who] [below] [is] [these] [the] [a] 3 [at] [it] [many] [said] [above]

Pasted from <http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/03/gender-analyzer-did.html>

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