13 November 2008

Now I'm a man

An intriguing post led me to try out the Gender Analyzer for myself - a piece of AI (still in beta) that claims it can judge whether a blog was written by a man or a woman.  It was trained on 2000 blogs, no less, and decided that:

We think http://notjustacademic.blogspot.com/ is written by a man (84%).

Nope.  I just checked: still female.

However, I'm in illustrious company.  Female Science Professor is also thought to be male (72%), as is self-declared woman KH of post doc ergo propter doc (80%), Sciencewoman (80%), and See Jane Compute (74%).  At least it got Ben Goldacre of Bad Science right (79%).  

At 84%, I'm a bigger man than them all, it seems.  Maybe I should start submitting journal papers for masked review instead of under my clearly girly given name.

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