Find out the gender of a blog author using Gender Analyzer

Posted on November 2, 2008 at 5:19 am

Sometimes I run across interesting sites that are unique in what they try to do. One of those sites is Gender Analyzer, where you can type in the URL of a web site and it will try to determine if a man or a woman writes the blog. Pretty interesting.

Apparently, it uses some kind of Artificial Intelligence algorithm to determine if a homepage is written by a male or a female. It’s based on some technology that you can read about at uClassify.com, which hosts a text classifier for various purposes.

I tried it out on my site and it gave the correct answer that I am a male! However, I find that it would be pretty easy to determine that considering the fact it’s a tech blog!

So then I thought I would try a tech blogs that are written by women and see what kind of results in returned:

JenSense – Thought it was male

Webmama – Thought it was a male

VanessaFox – Thought it was a male

Hmmm…not a very intelligent algorithm! Unless these women write more like men than women! Anyway, I tried in on some hard MOM blogs and it was able to at least get most of those as female writers!

Try out your site or your favorite blogs and see if it determines your sex correctly or not. I am guessing that as the uClassify site gets more information from its community of users, the better it will be able to determine the sex of a author. Enjoy!

» Filed Under Fun Stuff

Comments

3 Responses to “Find out the gender of a blog author using Gender Analyzer”

venkat said on : November 4th, 2008 at 2:23 am

Algorithms cant find out the gender of a blog author. It finds mine correctly, though I don’t know if it works right finding the gender on other blogs, thanks for letting me know about this site.

Sheila said on : December 11th, 2008 at 2:02 am

Gender analyzed correctly said that I was female. I wrote a post about algorithms and linked to this article.
http://www.nomoremathphobia.co.....verywhere/