{"id":1087,"date":"2008-11-23T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2008-11-23T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T17:35:00","slug":"is-yours-a-boy-blog-or-a-girl-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1087","title":{"rendered":"Is Yours a Boy Blog or a Girl Blog?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that you know your blog’s Meyers-Briggs personality type<\/a>, what about its gender?<\/p>\n

Web sites that apply an algorithm to determine whether text is “masculine” or “feminine” have been around for a little while. Gender Analyzer<\/a> is still in beta-testing. Its results are not always accurate.<\/p>\n

For instance, it shows my other blog<\/a> as having a 69-percent chance of being written by a man. But this blog rated a 90-percent chance of being written by a woman.<\/p>\n

Uh, no.<\/p>\n

Another writing-gender analysis site that shows you its inner workings is Gender Genie<\/a>. I have used it now and then as a fun exercise for my writing classes, and its results are usually<\/em> accurate.<\/p>\n

Have fun, and don’t take any of this too seriously, unless you really are trying to be something other than a dog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that you know your blog’s Meyers-Briggs personality type, what about its gender? Web sites that apply an algorithm to determine whether text is “masculine” or “feminine” have been around for a little while. Gender Analyzer is still in beta-testing. Its results are not always accurate. 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