The Gender Genie — This is an interesting program and I ran a few of my columns through it to see how they came out and I am indeed male! What was interesting though is if you cut the columns at some natural break point many of the early beginnings of the column are female, then I go male! Apparently this is some natural trick I learned to compel people to read into the column before I get into my arguments. Interesting since I’ve always thought I could trick people into reading entire columns with pacing and teaser lines. That must account for the “female” scores in the first half of the column. I have a lot of personal theories about all this. It’s just kind of interesting to run copy through these programs.

You should note that you have to put a lot of text into this to get good results. This means whole articles or long diatribes.

Inspired by an article in The New York Times Magazine, the Gender Genie uses a simplified version of an algorithm developed by Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology, to predict the gender of an author. Read more at nature.com.