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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
If you type in "I am a woman" the genie thinks you are a man. Anyone care to analyze that?
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It was your use of "a" that did it.
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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)
3. 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)
4. 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.
— Courtesy of Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology
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Technically, it's only supposed to work for fiction. When I put one of my posts about transmissions in, it thinks I'm male. When I put in my post about second-time bridal showers, it thinks I'm female. I guess I'm in perfect hormonal balance.
